“Then came the deglutition of saliva, and the old lady instinctively wiped the stubble of her toothbrush moustache with her handkerchief.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting… — Marcel Proust Cruelty Copy Share Image
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and… — Marcel Proust Feelings Copy Share Image
“I would lay my cheeks gently against the comfortable cheeks of my pillow, as plump and blooming as the cheeks of babyhood.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.” — Marcel Proust Deception Copy Share Image
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. — Marcel Proust Intelligence Copy Share Image
Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In vain I called upon it now. In vain I compressed the whole landscape into my field of vision, draining it with… — Marcel Proust Animals Copy Share Image
“I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her,… — Marcel Proust Hate Copy Share Image
Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at… — Marcel Proust Hope Copy Share Image
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though,… — Marcel Proust Drumming Copy Share Image
“I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession… — Marcel Proust Courage Copy Share Image
So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten… — Marcel Proust Beautiful Copy Share Image
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He… — 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
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
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
“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
“My aching heart was soothed; I let myself be borne upon the current of this gentle night ...” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation.” — Marcel Proust Cult Copy Share Image
“Often the sun would disappear behind a cloud, which impinged on its roundness, but whose edge the sun gilded in return.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as… — Marcel Proust Humans Copy Share Image
It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“grasses, convinced of the hostility of the violet curtains and of the insolent indifference of a clock that chattered on at the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting… — Marcel Proust Heart Copy Share Image
“But for the invert vice begins, not when he establishes a relationship (for too many reasons may govern that), but when he… — Marcel Proust Homosexuality Copy Share Image
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that… — Marcel Proust Lying Copy Share Image
“Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.” — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust Discovery Copy Share Image
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“but whenever I thought about them I pictured them to myself either in tapestry, as was the ‘Coronation of Esther’ which hung… — Marcel Proust Tapestry Copy Share Image
“Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could… — Marcel Proust August Copy Share Image
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way… — Marcel Proust Consciousness Copy Share Image
![“I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her, to force her to keep some memory of me. I thought her so beautiful that I should have liked to be able to retrace my steps so as to shake my fist at her and shout, "I think you're hideous…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe1/marcel-proust-114_hate_i-loved-her-gilberte-i-was-sorry-not-to_858858.jpg)
