“When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance if catching… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. — Marcel Proust Folly Copy Share Image
“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed… — Marcel Proust Evil Copy Share Image
Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it… — Marcel Proust Avon Copy Share Image
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that… — Marcel Proust Poetry Copy Share Image
Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not… — Marcel Proust Care Copy Share Image
The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character,… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our… — Marcel Proust Goals Copy Share Image
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the… — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
“I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some… — Marcel Proust Inspiration Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The ‘action’ began: to me it seemed all the more obscure because in those days, when I read to myself, I used… — Marcel Proust Habits Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“thus it is that egoists have always the last word; having posited at the start that their resolution is unshakeable, the more… — Marcel Proust Last Word Copy Share Image
“When I saw any external object, my consciousness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, enclosing it in… — Marcel Proust Consciousness Copy Share Image
“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like… — Marcel Proust Human life Copy Share Image
“...As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life,… — Marcel Proust Being wise Copy Share Image
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust Company Copy Share Image
“My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written,” — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that… — Marcel Proust Caring Copy Share Image
“In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no… — Marcel Proust Crime Copy Share Image
“Jean would be conscious of a curious feeling that he was living simultaneously in the immediate presence of a particular day and… — Marcel Proust Long ago Copy Share Image
“Pasaba largas horas encantadoras, a solas consigo mismo, el único invitado que olvidara invitar a comer durante su vida.” — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates. — Marcel Proust Climate Copy Share Image
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust Dark Copy Share Image
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust Grief Copy Share Image
“However, it was impossible for any love of mine for Andrée to be true: she was too intellectual, too highly strung, too… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...love, and consequently fear, of the crowd being one of the most powerful motives in all human beings...” — Marcel Proust Fear Copy Share Image
“A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“But to wander thus among the woods of Roussainville without a peasant-girl to embrace was to see those woods and yet know… — Marcel Proust Hidden beauty Copy Share Image
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly… — Marcel Proust Giving Copy Share Image
“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
