“Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies it - our life - hides from us, made invisible by our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is in love a permanent strain of suffering which happiness neutralises, makes potential only, postpones, but which may at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one spends one’s time,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“From that evening, Swann understood that the feeling which Odette had once had for him would never revive, that his hopes of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we are in love with a woman we simply project on to her a state of our own soul; that consequently… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love… — 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
“We are, when we love, in an abnormal state, capable of giving at once to the most apparently simple accident, an accident… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“An impression of love is out of proportion to the other impressions of life, but when it is lost in their midst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Not that the clear perception of certain weaknesses in those whom we love in any way diminishes our affection for them; rather… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“However, it was impossible for any love of mine for Andrée to be true: she was too intellectual, too highly strung, too… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But what revealed to me all of a sudden the Princess's love was a trifling incident upon which I shall not dwell… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“If the conversations of two people bound by a tie of intimacy are full of lies, these crop up no less spontaneously… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,… — 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
![“I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her, to force her to keep some memory of me. I thought her so beautiful that I should have liked to be able to retrace my steps so as to shake my fist at her and shout, "I think you're hideous…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe1/marcel-proust-114_hate_i-loved-her-gilberte-i-was-sorry-not-to_858858.jpg)
