To the pure all things are pure!
Marcel Proust
Purity, Perspective, Pure Intentions, Simplistic View, Unbiased Heart, Moral Clarity
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“Saddened by the misfortune of the Jews, remembering his friendship with Christians, increasingly mannered and affected as time went on for reasons to be revealed in due course, he now looked like a pre-Raphaelite worm on to which hairs had been indecently grafted, like threads in the depths of an opal.” Marcel Proust
Misfortune, Jews, Friendship Christians, Pre-Raphaelite Look, Affected Behavior, Historical Reflection
Marcel Proust Misfortune, Jews, Friendship Christians, Pre-Raphaelite Look, Affected Behavior, Historical Reflection“There’s nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one’s mind.” Marcel Proust
Desire, Prevent, Things, Mind, Emotional Conflict, Spoken Disharmony
Marcel Proust Desire, Prevent, Things, Mind, Emotional Conflict, Spoken Disharmony“Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid’s confinement.” Marcel Proust
Fruit Hidden, Kitchen Confinement, Natural Growth, Unseen Events, Life Cycle, Sudden Change
Marcel Proust Fruit Hidden, Kitchen Confinement, Natural Growth, Unseen Events, Life Cycle, Sudden Change“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.” Marcel Proust
Reader Reflection, Self Discovery, Truth Recognition, Authorial Perception, Inner Insights, Literary Connection
Marcel Proust Reader Reflection, Self Discovery, Truth Recognition, Authorial Perception, Inner Insights, Literary Connection“There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.” Marcel Proust
Action, Regret, Adolescence, Lost Spontaneity, Social Conformity, Youthful Lessons
Marcel Proust Action, Regret, Adolescence, Lost Spontaneity, Social Conformity, Youthful Lessons“There are optical errors in time as there are in space.” Marcel Proust
Time, Perception, Optical Illusion, Spatial Errors, Temporal Missteps, Visual Discrepancies
Marcel Proust Time, Perception, Optical Illusion, Spatial Errors, Temporal Missteps, Visual Discrepancies“The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.” Marcel Proust
Art, Reality, Knowledge, Impermeable, Rediscovery Truth, Artistic Revelation
Marcel Proust Art, Reality, Knowledge, Impermeable, Rediscovery Truth, Artistic Revelation“Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.” Marcel Proust
Love, Malady, Rheumatism, Respite, Emotional Pain, Fleeting Relief
Marcel Proust Love, Malady, Rheumatism, Respite, Emotional Pain, Fleeting Relief“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.” Marcel Proust
Passing Mind, Lasting Resolutions, Emotional Decisions, Momentary Reflection, Instinctive Choices, Inner Conflicts
Marcel Proust Passing Mind, Lasting Resolutions, Emotional Decisions, Momentary Reflection, Instinctive Choices, Inner Conflicts“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” Marcel Proust
Idea, Strength, Power, Challenge, Conceptual Energy, Intellectual Debate
Marcel Proust Idea, Strength, Power, Challenge, Conceptual Energy, Intellectual Debate“The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir.” Marcel Proust
Humanist, Aristocrat, Excess Reading, Intellectual Vanity, Neighborly Disdain, Social Irony
Marcel Proust Humanist, Aristocrat, Excess Reading, Intellectual Vanity, Neighborly Disdain, Social Irony“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.” Marcel Proust
Moment, Wait, Soon Nothing, Inevitable Ending, Life Realization, Quiet Finality
Marcel Proust Moment, Wait, Soon Nothing, Inevitable Ending, Life Realization, Quiet Finality“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“Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.” Marcel Proust
Gardening, Flowers, Dreams, Nightmares, Creative Work, Nature’s Art
Marcel Proust Gardening, Flowers, Dreams, Nightmares, Creative Work, Nature’s Art“Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient.” Marcel Proust
Neurosis, Illness, Deception, Malingering, Emotional Struggles, Psychological Illusion
Marcel Proust Neurosis, Illness, Deception, Malingering, Emotional Struggles, Psychological Illusion“The sea thus enchants us like music, which, unlike language, never bears the traces of things, never tells us anything about human beings, but imitates the stirrings of the soul.” Marcel Proust
Sea, Music, Soul Stirring, Enchantment, Nature, Language
Marcel Proust Sea, Music, Soul Stirring, Enchantment, Nature, Language“Everybody calls “clear” those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.” Marcel Proust
Ideas, Clarity, Shared Confusion, Mental Perspective, Thought Alignment, Cognitive Bias
Marcel Proust Ideas, Clarity, Shared Confusion, Mental Perspective, Thought Alignment, Cognitive Bias“But old age, to begin with, has something in common with death. Some face it with indifference, not because they have more courage than others, but because they have less imagination.” Marcel Proust
Old Age, Death, Indifference, Human Condition, Imagination, Reflection
Marcel Proust Old Age, Death, Indifference, Human Condition, Imagination, Reflection“He stood gazing at her; traces of the old fresco were apparent in her face and limbs, and these he tried incessantly, afterwards, to recapture, both when he was with Odette, and when he was only thinking of her in her absence; and, albeit his admiration for the Florentine masterpiece was probably based upon his discovery that it had been reproduced in her, the similarity enhanced her beauty also, and rendered her more precious in his sight.” Marcel Proust
Admiration, Beauty, Florentine Masterpiece, Old Fresco, Precious Memory, Artistic Vision
Marcel Proust Admiration, Beauty, Florentine Masterpiece, Old Fresco, Precious Memory, Artistic Vision“But sometimes it is just when everything seems to be lost that we experience a presentiment that may save us; one has knocked on all the doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one may enter and for which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years, and it opens.” Marcel Proust
Presentiment, Lost Hope, Saving Moment, Open Door, Unwitting Discovery, Unexpected Path
Marcel Proust Presentiment, Lost Hope, Saving Moment, Open Door, Unwitting Discovery, Unexpected Path