Il faudrait choisir de cesser de souffrir ou de cesser d’aimer.
Marcel Proust
Love, Suffering, Emotional Choice, Painful Love, Duality Of Feelings, Personal Struggle
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“Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.” Marcel Proust
Aristocracy, Fashion, Court, Prince, Social Status, Unexpected Power
Marcel Proust Aristocracy, Fashion, Court, Prince, Social Status, Unexpected Power“To know a thing does not enable us, always, to prevent its happening, but after all the things that we know we do hold, if not in our hands, at any rate in our minds, where we can dispose of them as we choose, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power to control them.” Marcel Proust
Know, Prevent, Hands, Minds, Knowledge Control, Illusory Power
Marcel Proust Know, Prevent, Hands, Minds, Knowledge Control, Illusory Power“I should have been happy: I wasn’t.” Marcel Proust
Happy, Should, Wasn’t, Regret, Unfulfilled Desire, Emotional Void
Marcel Proust Happy, Should, Wasn’t, Regret, Unfulfilled Desire, Emotional Void“The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.” Marcel Proust
Character, Evolution, Life Stages, Inner Opposite, Suit Metaphor, Identity Shift
Marcel Proust Character, Evolution, Life Stages, Inner Opposite, Suit Metaphor, Identity Shift“It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man’s deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit’s evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...” Marcel Proust
Attitude, Action, Hidden Character, Fragmented Recollection, Perception Reality, Sense Hallucination
Marcel Proust Attitude, Action, Hidden Character, Fragmented Recollection, Perception Reality, Sense Hallucination“We accept so many commitments in regard to life that a time comes when, despairing of ever managing to fulfill them all, we face the graves, we call upon death, “death, which brings help to destinies that have trouble coming true.” But while death may exempt us from commitments we have made in regard to life, it cannot exempt us from our commitments to ourselves, especially the most important one: namely, the commitment to live in order to be worthy and deserving.” Marcel Proust
Commitments, Life, Despair Exemption, Self Obligations, Worthy Existence, Fulfillment Struggles
Marcel Proust Commitments, Life, Despair Exemption, Self Obligations, Worthy Existence, Fulfillment Struggles“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“The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.” Marcel Proust
Anger, Vaccine, Emotional Control, Observing Others, Inner Peace, Behavioral Reflection
Marcel Proust Anger, Vaccine, Emotional Control, Observing Others, Inner Peace, Behavioral Reflection“Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.” Marcel Proust
Prize, Position, Read Preference, Honor Sacrifice, Literary Goals, True Recognition
Marcel Proust Prize, Position, Read Preference, Honor Sacrifice, Literary Goals, True Recognition“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” Marcel Proust
Wisdom, Journey, Self-Discovery, Individual Growth, Lifelong Learning, Personal Insight
Marcel Proust Wisdom, Journey, Self-Discovery, Individual Growth, Lifelong Learning, Personal Insight“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“It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.” Marcel Proust
Lying, Self-Deception, Reflection, Truth, Human Nature, Behavior
Marcel Proust Lying, Self-Deception, Reflection, Truth, Human Nature, Behavior“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“There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.” Marcel Proust
Days, Mountainous, Arduous Climb, Downward Journey, Emotional Cycles, Daily Struggles
Marcel Proust Days, Mountainous, Arduous Climb, Downward Journey, Emotional Cycles, Daily Struggles“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.” Marcel Proust
Intelligent, People, Suffer, Ills, Mental Strain, Overthinking Pain
Marcel Proust Intelligent, People, Suffer, Ills, Mental Strain, Overthinking Pain“As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.” Marcel Proust
Madness, Stupidity, Protective Maladies, Psychological Balance, Mental Irony, Existential Fragility
Marcel Proust Madness, Stupidity, Protective Maladies, Psychological Balance, Mental Irony, Existential Fragility“It is the same in life: the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune, but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination, for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that even if we are able to distinguish successively each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.” Marcel Proust
Life, Heart, Changes, Imagination, Gradual Alteration, Unfelt Transformation
Marcel Proust Life, Heart, Changes, Imagination, Gradual Alteration, Unfelt Transformation“We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.” Marcel Proust
Indifference, Emotional Investment, Joy Possibility, Perceptual Universe, Poetic Reality, Personal Connection
Marcel Proust Indifference, Emotional Investment, Joy Possibility, Perceptual Universe, Poetic Reality, Personal Connection