“After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family… — Marcel Proust Certain age Copy Share Image
“Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies it - our life - hides from us, made invisible by our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. — Marcel Proust Art 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
The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side. — Marcel Proust 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
“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage… — Marcel Proust Advantage Copy Share Image
“By art alone we can get out of ourselves, find out what another person sees of this universe which is not the… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Eu amava verdadeiramente a sra. de Guermantes. A maior felicidade que poderia pedir a Deus seria que fizesse tombar sobre ela todas… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing,” he now assured himself, “that when people pass judgment upon their neighbour, their finding is based upon… — Marcel Proust Judgment Copy Share Image
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the… — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to… — Marcel Proust Awareness Copy Share Image
“This torture inflicted on her by my great-aunt, the sight of my grandmother's vain entreaties, of her feeble attempts, doomed in advance,… — Marcel Proust Face to face Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Absence Copy Share Image
“All these my exaltation of mind has borne along with it and kept alive through the succession of the years, while all… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the… — Marcel Proust Goals Copy Share Image
“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those… — Marcel Proust Gratitude 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
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
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
“...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
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. — Marcel Proust Emotion Copy Share Image
