“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
“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
And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss… — Marcel Proust Abyss Copy Share Image
“There are certain original and distinguished authors in whom the least ‘freedom of speech’ is thought revolting because they have not begun… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“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
“But then, even in the most significant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material… — Marcel Proust Daily life Copy Share Image
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“...for if our life is vagabond our memory is sedentary and though we ourselves rush ceaselessly forward our recollections, indissolubly bound to… — Marcel Proust Left behind Copy Share Image
“And if I asked him, “Do you know the Guermantes family?” Legrandin the talker would reply, “No, I have never cared to… — Marcel Proust Family Copy Share Image
“Like the fires caught and fixed by a great colourist from the impermanence of the atmosphere and the sun, so that they… — Marcel Proust Chrysanthemums Copy Share Image
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Nature 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
“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
“And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long… — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Like a rare species of shrub in a tub, near the carriages, in front of the porch where I was waiting, stood… — Marcel Proust Gardening Copy Share Image
“Yes, I have been forced to whittle down the facts, and to be a liar, but it is not one universe, but… — Marcel Proust Every morning Copy Share Image
“There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love… — Marcel Proust Judgement Copy Share Image
“But what revealed to me all of a sudden the Princess's love was a trifling incident upon which I shall not dwell… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the afternoon sky a white moon would creep up like a little cloud, furtive, without display, suggesting an actress who… — Marcel Proust Moon Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And between the earth and its creatures I made no distinction. I had a desire for a peasant-girl from Méséglise or Roussainville,… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“since my aunt’s strength, which was completely drained by the slightest exertion, returned but drop by drop into the pool of her… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not… — Marcel Proust Captivity Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces… — Marcel Proust Company Copy Share Image
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment… — Marcel Proust Fashion Copy Share Image
“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed… — Marcel Proust Continuity Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Adventure Copy Share Image
