Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Mind Copy Share Image
“stood a saint with the full cheeks, the firm breasts which swelled out inside her draperies like a cluster of ripe grapes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make… — Marcel Proust Cry Copy Share Image
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs,… — Marcel Proust Belief 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
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
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone." — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“čovek je stvorenje koje ne može da izađe izvan sebe, koje poznaje druge samo u sebi i koji laže ako tvrdi suprotno.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly… — Marcel Proust Arts Copy Share Image
Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“That girl whom I never saw save dappled with the shadows of their leaves, was to me herself a plant of local… — Marcel Proust Gardening Copy Share Image
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“Like Michelangelo spending eight months in the mountains of Carrara, selecting the most perfect blocks of marble for the tomb of Pope… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“So as not to see anything any more, I turned towards the wall, but alas, what was now facing me was that… — Marcel Proust Fear Copy Share Image
“A person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans,… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He knew that the very memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the elements of music,… — Marcel Proust Music Copy Share Image
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory. — Marcel Proust Memories Copy Share Image
“I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.” — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.” — Marcel Proust Being nice Copy Share Image
“We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.” — Marcel Proust Crime Copy Share Image
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. — Marcel Proust People Copy Share Image
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