“Those who have played a big part in one’s life very rarely disappear from it suddenly for good. They return to it… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent,… — Marcel Proust Being kind Copy Share Image
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.” — Marcel Proust Instinct Copy Share Image
Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination. — Marcel Proust Femme Copy Share Image
“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.” — Marcel Proust Business Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with… — Marcel Proust Cowards Copy Share Image
“In summer, bad weather is no more than a passing fit of superficial ill-temper expressed by the permanent, underlying fine weather;” — Marcel Proust Bad weather Copy Share Image
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is… — Marcel Proust Class Copy Share Image
“As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec,… — Marcel Proust Blossom Copy Share Image
“The spinster noticed that her mother, who had seemed not displeased to remark that Mme d’Arpajon was one of those tired old… — Marcel Proust Old people Copy Share Image
“The pleasure which those girls were empowered to give me would have seemed less genuine, I should have had no faith in… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
“this early Swann in whom I can distinguish the charming mistakes of my childhood, and who, incidentally, is less like his successor… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Human spirit 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
“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
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare… — Marcel Proust Journey Copy Share Image
“This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.” — Marcel Proust Decision Copy Share Image
“The sunlight fell so implacably from a fixed sky that one was naturally inclined to slip away out of the reach of… — Marcel Proust Moon Copy Share Image
One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Ces jours uniques, ils se consument par l’usage, ils ne reviennent pas, on ne peut les vivre ici quand on les a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face… — Marcel Proust Bad mood Copy Share Image
“We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“(an excellent man, with whom I am sorry now that I did not converse more often, for, even if he cared nothing… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“In het leven van de meeste vrouwen is alles, zelfs het ergste verdriet, uiteindelijk een kwestie van passen.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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