For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.] — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are… — 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
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