A fashionable milieu is one in which each person’s opinion is made up of everyone else’s opinions. Does each opinion run counter to everyone else’s? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust
Fashionable, Milieu, Opinions Counter, Literary Circles, Social Dynamics, Collective Thought
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” Marcel Proust
Reading Miracle, Solitude, Emotional Growth, Intellectual Connection, Insightful Escape, Self Reflection
Marcel Proust Reading Miracle, Solitude, Emotional Growth, Intellectual Connection, Insightful Escape, Self Reflection“She’s got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.” Marcel Proust
Feet, Boats, Whiskers American, Undies Filthy, Odd Imagery, Unflattering Description
Marcel Proust Feet, Boats, Whiskers American, Undies Filthy, Odd Imagery, Unflattering Description“According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.” Marcel Proust
Ignorance, Love, Sophisticated Societies, Law Of Nature, Reflection, Emotion
Marcel Proust Ignorance, Love, Sophisticated Societies, Law Of Nature, Reflection, Emotion“That girl whom I never saw save dappled with the shadows of their leaves, was to me herself a plant of local growth, only taller than the rest, and one whose structure would enable me to approach more closely than in them to the intimate savour of the land from which she had sprung.” Marcel Proust
Girl, Shadows, Plant Metaphor, Local Growth, Land Savour, Intimate Essence
Marcel Proust Girl, Shadows, Plant Metaphor, Local Growth, Land Savour, Intimate Essence“The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.” Marcel Proust
Beauty, Images, Ideas, Reflection, Perception, Philosophy
Marcel Proust Beauty, Images, Ideas, Reflection, Perception, Philosophy“We see things but we don’t see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.” Marcel Proust
Perception, Mind Flow, Visual Blurring, Overlapping Thoughts, Subtle Vision, Hidden Details
Marcel Proust Perception, Mind Flow, Visual Blurring, Overlapping Thoughts, Subtle Vision, Hidden Details“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.” Marcel Proust
Truth, Fearless, Go Farther, Inner Discovery, Personal Journey, Hidden Reality
Marcel Proust Truth, Fearless, Go Farther, Inner Discovery, Personal Journey, Hidden Reality“It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over – and not the faintest clue how it’s done. The man’s a sorcerer; the thing’s a conjuring trick, it’s a miracle.” Marcel Proust
Magic, Miracle, Sorcerer, Trick, Enigmatic Wonder, Unexplainable Charm
Marcel Proust Magic, Miracle, Sorcerer, Trick, Enigmatic Wonder, Unexplainable Charm“Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed by the appetite that I was on the point of gratifying, she it was, I imagined, who offered me that gratification. My body, conscious that its own warmth was permeating hers, would strive to become one with her, and I would awake.” Marcel Proust
Eve, Woman, Imagined Creation, Sleep Desire, Physical Connection, Intimate Dreams
Marcel Proust Eve, Woman, Imagined Creation, Sleep Desire, Physical Connection, Intimate Dreams“We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.” Marcel Proust
Faithfulness, Memory, Past Connections, Recall, Loyalty, Personal History
Marcel Proust Faithfulness, Memory, Past Connections, Recall, Loyalty, Personal History“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust
Grateful, Happy, Gardeners, Souls, Charming People, Emotional Growth
Marcel Proust Grateful, Happy, Gardeners, Souls, Charming People, Emotional Growth“I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.” Marcel Proust
Smile, Mistake, Friendly Gesture, Fooling Others, Emotional Guard, Misplaced Trust
Marcel Proust Smile, Mistake, Friendly Gesture, Fooling Others, Emotional Guard, Misplaced Trust“Prosperity of wicked men runs like a torrent past, and soon is spent.” Marcel Proust
Wicked, Prosperity, Torrent, Past, Moral Decline, Fleeting Success
Marcel Proust Wicked, Prosperity, Torrent, Past, Moral Decline, Fleeting Success“And in the same way, again, are not the thoughts of men and women in the agony of death often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, internal, intestinal aspect, towards that ‘seamy side’ of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, a side which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?” Marcel Proust
Thoughts, Death, Painful, Burden, Crushing Reality, Final Agony
Marcel Proust Thoughts, Death, Painful, Burden, Crushing Reality, Final Agony“How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?” Marcel Proust
Learn, Real, Inventing, Outside, Imaginative Thinking, Perceived Reality
Marcel Proust Learn, Real, Inventing, Outside, Imaginative Thinking, Perceived Reality“Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.” Marcel Proust
Suffering, Love, Self Healing, Emotional Pain, Romantic Wisdom, Personal Growth
Marcel Proust Suffering, Love, Self Healing, Emotional Pain, Romantic Wisdom, Personal Growth“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.” Marcel Proust
Imagination, Love, Emotional Creation, Personal Perception, Romantic Illusion, Mental Projection
Marcel Proust Imagination, Love, Emotional Creation, Personal Perception, Romantic Illusion, Mental Projection“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years – and it opens.” Marcel Proust
Illumination, Rescue, Unconscious Discovery, Kingdom Entry, Last Hope, Hidden Opportunity
Marcel Proust Illumination, Rescue, Unconscious Discovery, Kingdom Entry, Last Hope, Hidden Opportunity