Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“My idea of Hell is to be stuck in a library where all the books were authored by Marcel Proust.” — Marc Rainer Copy Share Image
“De liefde? Die bedrijf ik vaak maar ik spreek er nooit over. (Mme de Villeparisis in 'De kant van Guermantes'.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I know the secrets; I dig Joyce and Proust above Melville and Celine.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman." Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in:… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust… — Michael Foley 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
It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his… — Alain de Botton 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
Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Memory, personal and historical, is often accompanied by moralistic sentiment. Nostalgia is an act of escapism and self-indulgence, but to forget the… — Ezra Glinter Copy Share Image
“In my twenties if even a tenth reading of Mallarmé failed to yield up its treasures, the fault was mine, not his.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Many contemporaries of Proust’s insisted that he wrote the way he spoke, although when Du côté de chez Swann appeared in print,… — Christopher Prendergast Copy Share Image
“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment… — marcel proust Copy Share Image
“Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess” — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage of discovery (is) to behold the universe through the eyes of another - Marcel Proust” — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
“Wall of lies?’ Proust muttered. ‘Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?” — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear? — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
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