“I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.” — Marcel Proust 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
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
“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
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
“To know a thing does not always enable us to prevent it, but at least the things we know we do hold,… — Marcel Proust Illusion Copy Share Image
“Not that the clear perception of certain weaknesses in those whom we love in any way diminishes our affection for them; rather… — Marcel Proust Affection Copy Share Image
Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that… — Marcel Proust Habit Copy Share Image
“We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always,… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“When we are waiting, the double trajectory, from the ear that gathers in the sounds to the mind that processes and analyzes… — Marcel Proust Psychology Copy Share Image
“And from that instant I did not have to take another step; the ground moved forward under my feet in that garden… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her blue, almond-shaped eyes - now even more elongated - had altered in appearance; they were indeed of the same colour, but… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void… — Marcel Proust Insightful Copy Share Image
“The Prince’s name preserved, in the boldness with which its opening syllables were—to borrow an expression from music—attacked, and in the stammering… — Marcel Proust Courage Copy Share Image
“in other words each of those calm and melancholy days on which I did not see her, coming one after the other… — Marcel Proust Grief Copy Share Image
“The ineffable utterance of one solitary man, absent, perhaps dead (Swann did not know whether Vinteuil were still alive), breathed out above… — Marcel Proust Psychology Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Children 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
“I could believe this all the more readily (and also that the caresses by which she would bring that savour to my… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“Besides, those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. As consolation can come… — Marcel Proust Grief 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
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
“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
“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 charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage. — Marcel Proust Charm Copy Share Image
“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they… — Marcel Proust Cathedrals 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
“It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.” — Marcel Proust Creative imagination Copy Share Image
“One would be cured for ever of romanticism if one could make up one’s mind, in thinking of the woman one loves,… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance… — Marcel Proust Family Copy Share Image
Like everybody who is not loved that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
