There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Those who have played a big part in one’s life very rarely disappear from it suddenly for good. They return to it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec,… — 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
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“there are things in our souls which we know not how much they mean to us. Or rather, if we live without… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There was a time when my ancestors were proud of the title of chamberlain or butler to the King," said the Baron.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those… — 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
“Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Winter was come indeed bringing with it those pleasures of which the summer dreamer knows nothing—the delight when the fine and glittering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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
“Saddened by the misfortune of the Jews, remembering his friendship with Christians, increasingly mannered and affected as time went on for reasons… — 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
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“They were in no way connected now with nature, with the world of real things, which from now onwards lost all its… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, 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
“My sole consolation when I went upstairs for the night was that Mamma would come in and kiss me after I was… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it,… — 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
“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)
