The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last… — Marcel Proust Attention Copy Share Image
“No es resultado de la casualidad que los hombres intelectuales y sensibles se entreguen siempre a mujeres insensibles e inferiores y les… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those… — Marcel Proust Daily life Copy Share Image
“My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, she grew alarmed on his account… — Marcel Proust Annoyance Copy Share Image
“Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,… — Marcel Proust Dark Copy Share Image
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature… — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
“I had reached the point, at Balbec, of regarding the pleasure of playing with a troop of girls as less destructive of… — Marcel Proust Individuality Copy Share Image
“...burying the bush in these little rosettes, almost too ravishing in colour, this rustic 'pompadour'. High up on the branches, like so… — Marcel Proust Flowers Copy Share Image
“It appeared that the deference which, on my grandmother’s authority, we owed to Mme. de Villeparisis imposed on her the reciprocal obligation… — Marcel Proust Deference Copy Share Image
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which… — Marcel Proust Aspiration Copy Share Image
“make use of some such alarm signals as mad-doctors adopt in dealing with their distracted patients; as by beating several times on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“lived within a mile of the place." My grandmother, who held that, when one went to the seaside, one ought to be… — Marcel Proust Psychology Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Anguish Copy Share Image
“Oh, my poor little hawthorns," I was assuring them through my sobs, "it isn't you who want me to be unhappy, to… — Marcel Proust Blossom Copy Share Image
“To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the… — Marcel Proust Nature Copy Share Image
“It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tedium of having to rejoin… — Marcel Proust Breaking up Copy Share Image
“Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the… — Marcel Proust Habits Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to the exhilaration which I derived from being alone would be added an alternative feeling, so that I could not be… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
“For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon… — Marcel Proust Adventure Copy Share Image
“For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is… — Marcel Proust Imagination Copy Share Image
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might… — Marcel Proust Criterion Copy Share Image
“And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“It is in sickness that we are compelled to recognise that we do not live alone but are chained to a being… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden… — Marcel Proust Journey Copy Share Image
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“We trust in love as we trust in life, without thinking of the underlying emptiness, without too much believing in it. We… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and… — Marcel Proust Generosity Copy Share Image
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
“When, on a summer evening, the melodious sky growls like a tawny lion, and everyone is complaining of the storm, it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day… — Marcel Proust Customs Copy Share Image
“Saddened by the misfortune of the Jews, remembering his friendship with Christians, increasingly mannered and affected as time went on for reasons… — Marcel Proust Christianity Copy Share Image
“There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory… — Marcel Proust Growth Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at… — Marcel Proust Nature Copy Share Image
