It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty. — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool… — Marcel Proust Failure Copy Share Image
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they… — Marcel Proust Freedom Copy Share Image
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. — Marcel Proust Continuity Copy Share Image
“I might go alone as far as the porch of Saint-André-des-Champs: never did I find there the girl whom I should inevitably… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Amusement Copy Share Image
“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink… — Marcel Proust Gratitude 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 Hope Copy Share Image
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“If the conversations of two people bound by a tie of intimacy are full of lies, these crop up no less spontaneously… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Attraction Copy Share Image
“It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's… — Marcel Proust Botticelli Copy Share Image
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost… — Marcel Proust Memory Copy Share Image
“then we would enter what he called his “study,” a room whose walls were hung with prints which showed, against a dark… — Marcel Proust Artist 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 Contemplation Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“From that evening, Swann understood that the feeling which Odette had once had for him would never revive, that his hopes of… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.” — Marcel Proust Pleasure Copy Share Image
“It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.” — Marcel Proust Absurdity Copy Share Image
“He was one of those susceptible, highly-strung persons who cannot bear to have made a blunder which, though they do not admit… — Marcel Proust Blunder 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
“[…] 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
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
“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
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
“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 concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any act of servility if the need arose, and was incapable of gratitude. In which he resembled the majority of mankind.” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d80/marcel-proust-114_gratitude_i-concluded-all-the-same-from-this-first_3206472.jpg)
![“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in: No caminho de Swann” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fd2/marcel-proust-114_marcel-proust_e-chorei-de-alegria-e-confian-a-sobre-as_1822253.jpg)
