“It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tedium of having to rejoin… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We trust in love as we trust in life, without thinking of the underlying emptiness, without too much believing in it. We… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we are in love, our love is too vast to be wholly contained within ourselves; it radiates outwards, reaches the resistant… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At this time of life one has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“All those beings who revealed truths to me and who were no longer there, seemed to me to have lived a life… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One can feel an attraction towards a particular person. But to release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be… — 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
