Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.
Marcel Proust
Habit, Growth, Nutritious Soil, Barren Rock, Resilient Nature, Human Behavior
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.” Marcel Proust
Soul, Dark Forest, Genealogical Trees, Unique Spirit, Ancestral Roots, Mystical Depths
Marcel Proust Soul, Dark Forest, Genealogical Trees, Unique Spirit, Ancestral Roots, Mystical Depths“Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.” Marcel Proust
Unkindness, Pain, Emotional Damage, Cyclical Negativity, Social Reflection, Toxic Behavior
Marcel Proust Unkindness, Pain, Emotional Damage, Cyclical Negativity, Social Reflection, Toxic Behavior“Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.” Marcel Proust
Fears, Hopes, Triumph, Powers, Inner Strength, Emotional Victory
Marcel Proust Fears, Hopes, Triumph, Powers, Inner Strength, Emotional Victory“There is a beauty in being surrounded by the foreign – seeing things from a new perspective, with new eyes.” Marcel Proust
Beauty, Foreign, Perspective, Eyes, New View, Broader Horizons
Marcel Proust Beauty, Foreign, Perspective, Eyes, New View, Broader Horizons“For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.” Marcel Proust
Love, Desire, Painful Anxiety, Existence Continuity, Emotional Struggle, Foundational Passion
Marcel Proust Love, Desire, Painful Anxiety, Existence Continuity, Emotional Struggle, Foundational Passion“Desire makes everything blossom.” Marcel Proust
Desire, Blossom, Emotional Growth, Inner Drive, Romantic Flourish, Creative Passion
Marcel Proust Desire, Blossom, Emotional Growth, Inner Drive, Romantic Flourish, Creative Passion“A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.” Marcel Proust
Woman, Love, Suffices, Deceive, Emotional Gaps, Unfaithful Desire
Marcel Proust Woman, Love, Suffices, Deceive, Emotional Gaps, Unfaithful Desire“There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.” Marcel Proust
Faces, Beauty, Majesty, Eyes, Unusual Transformation, Silent Elegance
Marcel Proust Faces, Beauty, Majesty, Eyes, Unusual Transformation, Silent Elegance“The disgust of distinguished people for snobs who want to force themselves upon them, the virile man has for the invert, the woman for every man who is too much in love with her.” Marcel Proust
Disgust, Distinction, Forced Attention, Social Dynamics, Emotional Reactions, Personal Boundaries
Marcel Proust Disgust, Distinction, Forced Attention, Social Dynamics, Emotional Reactions, Personal Boundaries“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart in the silence of the night, the irrevocability of absence, the rigid stillness of repose, the agony of solitude and sleeplessness. If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.” Marcel Proust
Sleep Agony, Solitude, Emotional Isolation, Night Silence, Grief Presence, Mental Torture
Marcel Proust Sleep Agony, Solitude, Emotional Isolation, Night Silence, Grief Presence, Mental Torture“Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.” Marcel Proust
Gallardon, Ambitions, Social Sacrifice, Private Pleasure, Disagreeable Words, Human Irony
Marcel Proust Gallardon, Ambitions, Social Sacrifice, Private Pleasure, Disagreeable Words, Human Irony“I would fall asleep again, and thereafter would reawaken for short snatches only, just long enough to hear the regular creaking of the wainscot, or to open my eyes to stare at the shifting kaleidoscope of the darkness, to savour, in a momentary glimmer of consciousness, the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, that whole of which I formed no more than a small part and whose insensibility I should very soon return to share.” Marcel Proust
Short Awakens, Emotional Sensory, Sleep Awareness, Darkness, Memory Impressions, Transient Moments
Marcel Proust Short Awakens, Emotional Sensory, Sleep Awareness, Darkness, Memory Impressions, Transient Moments“Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.” Marcel Proust
Imagination, Belief, Create Atmosphere, Unique Perception, Mental Differentiation, Emotional Insight
Marcel Proust Imagination, Belief, Create Atmosphere, Unique Perception, Mental Differentiation, Emotional Insight“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Marcel Proust
Weather, Change, Recreate World, Personal Renewal, Environmental Influence, Fresh Perspectives
Marcel Proust Weather, Change, Recreate World, Personal Renewal, Environmental Influence, Fresh Perspectives“Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.” Marcel Proust
Masterpieces, Flotsam, Minds, Great, Artistic Survival, Creative Chaos
Marcel Proust Masterpieces, Flotsam, Minds, Great, Artistic Survival, Creative Chaos“Each artist seems thus to be the native of an unknown country, which he himself has forgotten, different from that from which will emerge, making for the earth, another great artist.” Marcel Proust
Unknown Country, Forgotten Native, Artistic Identity, Creation Origin, Emotional Discovery, Artistic Legacy
Marcel Proust Unknown Country, Forgotten Native, Artistic Identity, Creation Origin, Emotional Discovery, Artistic Legacy“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” Marcel Proust
Art, Perspective, Shared Vision, Creative Connection, Emotional Understanding, Artistic Escape
Marcel Proust Art, Perspective, Shared Vision, Creative Connection, Emotional Understanding, Artistic Escape“One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.” Marcel Proust
Personal Change, Inner Transformation, Self Acceptance, Emotional Growth, Past Self, Identity Shift
Marcel Proust Personal Change, Inner Transformation, Self Acceptance, Emotional Growth, Past Self, Identity Shift