And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. — Marcel Proust Fantasy Copy Share Image
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. — Marcel Proust Emotion Copy Share Image
“I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an… — Marcel Proust Friendship Copy Share Image
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. — Marcel Proust Humanity Copy Share Image
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,… — Marcel Proust Art 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 Love Copy Share Image
“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“…the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue,… — Marcel Proust Nature Copy Share Image
“And each time the cowardice that deters us from every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thing… — Marcel Proust Business 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 Egotism Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne… — 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring… — Marcel Proust Bird Copy Share Image
“But the second kind seek out the women who love women, who can procure a young man for them and add to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof… — Marcel Proust Comedy Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Had my parents allowed me, when I read a book, to pay a visit to the region it described, I should have… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“I would amuse myself by watching the glass jars which the boys used to lower into the Vivonne, to catch minnows, and… — Marcel Proust Water Copy Share Image
“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form… — Marcel Proust Genius Copy Share Image
Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point… — Marcel Proust Advantage Copy Share Image
For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the gentle gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust Gardeners Copy Share Image
“With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not… — Marcel Proust Hope Copy Share Image
“breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling. My” — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“And so it is with things that we shall later love the most. We meet them first as strangers who give us… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
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