“it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she looks on us with contempt,” — Marcel Proust Contempt Copy Share Image
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it. — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust Intellect Copy Share Image
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“I feel infinite sadness at seeing how few people are genuinely kind.” — Marcel Proust Being kind Copy Share Image
“Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.” — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can… — Marcel Proust Atheist Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Why, I have never anything to do. I am always free, and I always will be free if you want me.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. — Marcel Proust Flowing Copy Share Image
“Snobbery is with certain people analogous to those beverages in which the agreeable is mixed with the beneficial.” — Marcel Proust Snobbery Copy Share Image
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes. — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in… — Marcel Proust Courage Copy Share Image
“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more,… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders… — Marcel Proust Calm Copy Share Image
“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly… — Marcel Proust Arts Copy Share Image
“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Out of the fresh little green hearts of their foliage the lilacs raised inquisitively over the fence of the park their plumes… — Marcel Proust Flowers Copy Share Image
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something… — Marcel Proust Pleasure Copy Share Image
“By shutting her eyes, by losing consciousness, Albertine had stripped off, one after another, the different human personalities with which we had… — Marcel Proust Full moon Copy Share Image
“No doubt I had had experience with Gilberte of the danger of letters expressing an indifference which, feigned at first, ends by… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour… — Marcel Proust Daybreak Copy Share Image
“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part,… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Like many other men, Swann had a naturally lazy mind and lacked imagination. He knew perfectly well as a general truth that… — Marcel Proust Human life Copy Share Image
“Despite the heavy, motionless silence of the hawthorns, these gusts of fragrance came to me like the murmuring of an intense vitality,… — Marcel Proust Flower Copy Share Image
![“However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night inorder for them to be better…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ea1/marcel-proust-114_calm_however-the-danger-in-socially-unbalance_1850171.jpg)
