The only paradise is paradise lost.

—Marcel Proust

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About Marcel Proust

Portrait of Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things...

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

—Marcel Proust

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

—Marcel Proust

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

—Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

—Marcel Proust

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so

—Marcel Proust

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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

—Laurie Anderson

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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

—Joni Mitchell

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

—Vita Sackville-West