Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.] — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“it was the moment in which a sane man who is talking to a lunatic has not yet perceived that his companion… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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
“I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We need, between us and the fish which, if we saw it for the first time cooked and served on a table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those… — 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
“A woman sees herself dying, in these cases not at the actual moment of death but months, sometimes years before, when death… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — 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
“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
“We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At such moments Gilberte’s plaits used to brush my cheek. They seemed to me, in the fineness of their grain, at once… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“... my body ... faithful guardian of a past which my mind should never have forgotten, brought back before my eyes …” — 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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