“For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“That is rather Pelléas, too,” I suggested to Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin. “You know the scene I mean.” “Of course I do” was… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared”… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly, in some accident, she who was out of doors in the streets, crossing busy… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — 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
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
“But she was wrong; it was what gave her away; she had not taken into account that this fragmentary detail of the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only,"… — 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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