Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#direct #direct proportion #generally #her #passing

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#be grateful #blossom #charming #gardeners #grateful

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#due #love #own #physicians #say

We become moral when we are unhappy. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#moral #unhappy

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#forest #genealogical #particular #soul #species

La vera terra dei barbari non è quella che non ha mai conosciuto l’arte, ma quella che, disseminata di capolavori, non sa né apprezzarli né conservarli. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#art

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#eyes #having #landscapes #new #new eyes

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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