We dream much of a paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die, a paradise lost, in which we should feel ourselves lost too.
Marcel Proust
Paradise, Successive, Dream Reflection, Lost States, Mortal Vision, Nostalgic Longing
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“Photography is the product of complete alienation.” Marcel Proust
Photography, Alienation, Artistic Expression, Creative Isolation, Visual Art, Social Distance
Marcel Proust Photography, Alienation, Artistic Expression, Creative Isolation, Visual Art, Social Distance“When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.” Marcel Proust
Music, Sadness, Emotional Comfort, Inner Solace, Personal Escape, Listening Peace
Marcel Proust Music, Sadness, Emotional Comfort, Inner Solace, Personal Escape, Listening Peace“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“To have a kind heart is everything.” Marcel Proust
Kindness, Heart, True Virtue, Inner Goodness, Life Essence, Pure Intent
Marcel Proust Kindness, Heart, True Virtue, Inner Goodness, Life Essence, Pure Intent“When we are in love, our love is too vast to be wholly contained within ourselves; it radiates outwards, reaches the resistant surface of the loved one, which reflects it back to its starting-point; and this return of our own tenderness is what we see as the other’s feelings, working their new, enhanced charm on us, because we do not recognize them as having originated in ourselves.” Marcel Proust
Love, Tenderness, Radiating Emotion, Reflected Feelings, Enhanced Charm, Misrecognized Origin
Marcel Proust Love, Tenderness, Radiating Emotion, Reflected Feelings, Enhanced Charm, Misrecognized Origin“To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the look in their eyes seems to warn us that they are about to take flight. The proof of this beauty itself, that wings add is that often, for us, the same person is alternately winged and wingless.” Marcel Proust
Beings, Wings, Eyes, Flight, Fleeting Beauty, Duality Nature
Marcel Proust Beings, Wings, Eyes, Flight, Fleeting Beauty, Duality Nature“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“Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.” Marcel Proust
Details, Life, Social Identity, Material Whole, Daily Influence, External Perception
Marcel Proust Details, Life, Social Identity, Material Whole, Daily Influence, External Perception“Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.” Marcel Proust
Reality, Unknown, First Step, Progressing Road, Existential Journey, Uncharted Path
Marcel Proust Reality, Unknown, First Step, Progressing Road, Existential Journey, Uncharted Path“Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.” Marcel Proust
Grief, Ideas, Heart Injury, Emotional Healing, Pain Transformation, Intellectual Growth
Marcel Proust Grief, Ideas, Heart Injury, Emotional Healing, Pain Transformation, Intellectual Growth“A well-read man will yawn with boredom when one speaks to him of a new “good book,” as he imagines a sort of composite of all the good books he has read, whereas a good book is something special, unforeseeable, made up not of the sum of all previous masterpieces but of something which the most thorough assimilation of every one of them would not enable him to discover, since it exists not in their sum but beyond it.” Marcel Proust
Books, Reading, Masterpieces, Boredom, Literary Value, Unique Insights
Marcel Proust Books, Reading, Masterpieces, Boredom, Literary Value, Unique Insights“Conversation, which is friendship’s mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.” Marcel Proust
Conversation, Friendship, Expression Mode, Superficial Talk, Empty Words, Social Insight
Marcel Proust Conversation, Friendship, Expression Mode, Superficial Talk, Empty Words, Social Insight“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.” Marcel Proust
Charm, Passing, Woman’s Beauty, Fleeting Allure, Time’s Impact, Transient Elegance
Marcel Proust Charm, Passing, Woman’s Beauty, Fleeting Allure, Time’s Impact, Transient Elegance“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them; they can inflict on them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies succeeding one another without interruption in the bosom of a family will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physician.” Marcel Proust
Facts, Life, Beliefs, Faith, Unshaken Conviction, Emotional Fortitude
Marcel Proust Facts, Life, Beliefs, Faith, Unshaken Conviction, Emotional Fortitude“Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.” Marcel Proust
Countries, Longing, Idealized Places, Life Perspective, Unrealistic Desires, Emotional Distance
Marcel Proust Countries, Longing, Idealized Places, Life Perspective, Unrealistic Desires, Emotional Distance“I feel infinite sadness at seeing how few people are genuinely kind.” Marcel Proust
Kindness, Infinite Sadness, Emotional Loss, Human Connection, Genuine Souls, Societal Reflection
Marcel Proust Kindness, Infinite Sadness, Emotional Loss, Human Connection, Genuine Souls, Societal Reflection“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“The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things. The door-handle of my room, which was different to me from all the other doorhandles in the world, inasmuch as it seemed to open of its own accord and without my having to turn it, so unconscious had its manipulation become; lo and behold, it was now an astral body for Golo.” Marcel Proust
Custom, Melancholy, Room, Door, Astral Body, Habitual Awareness
Marcel Proust Custom, Melancholy, Room, Door, Astral Body, Habitual Awareness