Marcel Proust's most beautiful lines
The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: We cannot change things to suit our desires, but little by little our desires change. · The only true voyage… would be not to visit new landscapes, but to have other eyes. · One can sometimes find a person again, but not abolish time.. (Updated Nov 18, 2019.)
From 'For a long time, I went to bed early' to Time Regained: the most quoted lines from In Search of Lost Time, with the volume they come from.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 13
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We cannot change things to suit our desires, but little by little our desires change.
The Fugitive (1925).
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The only true voyage… would be not to visit new landscapes, but to have other eyes.
The Prisoner (1923).
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One can sometimes find a person again, but not abolish time.
Sodom and Gomorrah (1921).
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Fashions change, being themselves born of the need for change.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919).
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For a long time, I went to bed early.
Swann's Way (1913), the first sentence of the Search.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Swann's Way (1913).
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An hour is not merely an hour; it is a vase full of scents, sounds, plans and climates.
Time Regained (1927).
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In reality, every reader, when reading, is the reader of his own self.
Time Regained (1927).
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Regret is an amplifier of desire.
The Fugitive (1925).
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Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
The Fugitive (1925).
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The force that goes round the earth most times in a second is not electricity, it is pain.
The Fugitive (1925).
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We remember an atmosphere because some girls smiled in it.
The Prisoner (1923).
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Pain is as powerful a modifier of reality as drunkenness.
The Fugitive (1925).
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