Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. — 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
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
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor’s side with a. happy determination which deludes… — 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
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that… — 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 suppression of suffering? Can I really have believed it, have believed that death merely strikes out what exists, and leaves everything… — 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
“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
“Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This torture inflicted on her by my great-aunt, the sight of my grandmother's vain entreaties, of her feeble attempts, doomed in advance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At every new torment which is too hard to bear we feel yet another vein protrude, to unroll its sinuous and deadly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to… — 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
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state,… — 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
“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with… — 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
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and… — 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
“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — 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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