All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. — Marcel Proust Decision making Copy Share Image
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
“People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination — Marcel Proust Beautiful women Copy Share Image
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. — Marcel Proust Art 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 never much like thus being told without possibility of reply what I am to think about people whom I know.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is our noticing them that puts things in a room, our growing used to them that takes them away again and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to… — Marcel Proust Travel Copy Share Image
L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something. — Marcel Proust Adolescence Copy Share Image
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her? I felt that she would have regarded me as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Out of the fresh little green hearts of their foliage the lilacs raised inquisitively over the fence of the park their plumes… — Marcel Proust Flowers Copy Share Image
“The telephone was not yet at that date as commonly in use as it is today. And yet habit requires so short… — Marcel Proust Habits 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 Courage Copy Share Image
“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more,… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders… — Marcel Proust Calm Copy Share Image
“in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in… — Marcel Proust Business Copy Share Image
“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“I would fix my eyes, without limit of time, upon the trunk of a distant tree, from behind which she must appear… — Marcel Proust Every moment Copy Share Image
“day. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that… — Marcel Proust Evil thoughts Copy Share Image
“Part of the beauty—and it is the original flaw in this type of literature, from which the famous Lundis are not exempt—lies… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that… — Marcel Proust Adventure Copy Share Image
“And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that… — Marcel Proust Admiration 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
“This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.” — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. — Marcel Proust Creation Copy Share Image
There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture,” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.” — Marcel Proust Definitive Copy Share Image
“What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth. — Marcel Proust Forgiveness Copy Share Image
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