“Why, I have never anything to do. I am always free, and I always will be free if you want me.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she looks on us with contempt,” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is to such sufferings that we attach the pleasure of loving, of delighting in the most insignificant remarks of a woman,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One would be cured for ever of romanticism if one could make up one’s mind, in thinking of the woman one loves,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And so it is with things that we shall later love the most. We meet them first as strangers who give us… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Like everybody who is not loved that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For in this respect love is not like war; after the battle is ended we renew the fight with keener ardour, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I was genuinely in love with Mme. de Guermantes. The greatest happiness that I could have asked of God would have been… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Having a liking for someone is one thing; but to be afflicted with the sadness, the feeling of something irreparable having happened,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Besides, those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. As consolation can come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I was merely making more perceptible that binary rhythm which love adopts in all those who have too little confidence in themselves… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“[...]however much one may love the poison that is destroying one, when one has compulsorily to do without it, and has had… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Oh, my poor little hawthorns," I was assuring them through my sobs, "it isn't you who want me to be unhappy, to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...love, and consequently fear, of the crowd being one of the most powerful motives in all human beings...” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — 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
![“[...]however much one may love the poison that is destroying one, when one has compulsorily to do without it, and has had to do without it for some time past, one cannot help attaching a certain value to the peace of mind which one had ceased to know, to the absence of emotion and suffering. If…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/392/marcel-proust-114_day-to-day_however-much-one-may-love-the-poison-tha_2809188.jpg)
