“for they are produced whenever there needs to establish itself in the security necessary to its development a vice which Nature herself… — Marcel Proust Child Copy Share Image
“I looked at her, at first with the sort of gaze that is not merely the messenger of the eyes, but a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
“She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that,… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is in love a permanent strain of suffering which happiness neutralises, makes potential only, postpones, but which may at… — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
“The names of Northern railway stations in a timetable where he would like to imagine himself stepping from the train on an… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source… — Marcel Proust Music Copy Share Image
“Next to this central belief which,while I was reading, would be constantly reaching out from my inner self to the outer world,… — Marcel Proust Actual life Copy Share Image
“And even before my brain, lingering in consideration of when things had happened and of what they had looked like, had sufficient… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Un día que habían salvado contra su voluntad a una viuda que se había arrojado al agua, mi abuela me había dicho… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a… — Marcel Proust Attitude Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
“I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“as those old engravings of the ‘Cenacolo,’ or that painting by Gentile Bellini, in which one sees, in a state in which… — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and… — Marcel Proust 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
“I have friends wherever there are clusters of trees, stricken but not defeated, which have come together with touching perseverance to offer… — Marcel Proust Friends 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
“Having a liking for someone is one thing; but to be afflicted with the sadness, the feeling of something irreparable having happened,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon… — Marcel Proust Comedy Copy Share Image
As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from… — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
“We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honoured, but if… — Marcel Proust Esteem Copy Share Image
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth… — Marcel Proust Being in love Copy Share Image
“...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Eternal youth 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
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Abstract Copy Share Image
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no… — Marcel Proust Body 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
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