There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.” — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“...my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...” — 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
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to… — Marcel Proust Depth Copy Share Image
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — Marcel Proust Cathedral Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Art 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 After death Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us?… — Marcel Proust Consciousness Copy Share Image
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“so, this evening, she said to my grandfather, “Yes, some day when the weather is fine I shall go for a drive… — Marcel Proust Motivation Copy Share Image
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And, quite possibly, this lack (or seeming lack) of participation by a person's soul in the virtue of which he or she… — Marcel Proust Generosity Copy Share Image
“I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,… — Marcel Proust Affectionate Copy Share Image
“Un día que habían salvado contra su voluntad a una viuda que se había arrojado al agua, mi abuela me había dicho… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a… — Marcel Proust Attitude Copy Share Image
“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit” — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.” — Marcel Proust Conversation Copy Share Image
“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one… — Marcel Proust Dance Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Book 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
“Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera… — Marcel Proust Cholera Copy Share Image
La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater… — Marcel Proust Amour Copy Share Image
“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in:… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.” — Marcel Proust Sleep Copy Share Image
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