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For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.

Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust's Popular Quotes

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

- Marcel Proust

with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

- Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

- Marcel Proust

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

- Marcel Proust

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

- Marcel Proust

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

- Marcel Proust

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

- Marcel Proust
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