Marcel Proust on Life
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Marcel Proust, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Marcel Proust, entry #3784: "My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
Attributed to Marcel Proust, entry #162494: "A man is not more entitled to be "received in good society," or at least to wish to be, because he is more intelligent and cultivated. This is one of those sophisms that the vanit…"
2 Quotes by Marcel Proust on Life
"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
"A man is not more entitled to be "received in good society," or at least to wish to be, because he is more intelligent and cultivated. This is one of those sophisms that the vanity of intelligent people picks up in the arsenal of their intelligence to justify their basest inclinations. In other words, having become more intelligent creates some rights to be less. Very simply, diverse personalities are to be found in the breast of each of us, and often the life of more than one superior man is nothing but the coexistence of a philosopher and a snob. Actually, there are very few philosophers and artists who are absolutely detached from ambition and respect for power, from "people of position." And among those who are more delicate or more sated, snobism replaces ambition and respect for power in the same way superstition arises on the ruins of religious beliefs. Morality gains nothing there. Between a worldly philosopher and a philosopher intimidated by a minister of state, the second is still the more innocent."