The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“By art alone we can get out of ourselves, find out what another person sees of this universe which is not the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share
