“And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I lost all sense of the place in which I had gone to sleep, and when I awoke at midnight, not knowing… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Composers were warned not to strain the attention of their audience, as though we had not at our disposal different degrees of… — Marcel Proust Attention Copy Share Image
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own… — Marcel Proust Baggage Copy Share Image
“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to… — Marcel Proust Anger Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have… — Marcel Proust Actors Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a cramped position of… — Marcel Proust Dreaming Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Mme Verdurin asked him: "Did you have some of my orangeade?" Whereupon M. de Charlus, with a gracious smile, in a crystalline… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs,… — Marcel Proust Beliefs Copy Share Image
“I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased… — Marcel Proust Compassion Copy Share Image
“They were in no way connected now with nature, with the world of real things, which from now onwards lost all its… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way… — Marcel Proust Approval Copy Share Image
“We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has… — Marcel Proust Music Copy Share Image
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to… — Marcel Proust Alive Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to… — Marcel Proust Travel Copy Share Image
“Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostriches, the kind that bury their heads not… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only,"… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
La me decine a fait quelques petits progre' s dans ses connaissances depuis Molie' re, mais aucun dans son vocabulaire. Medicine has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find,… — Marcel Proust Imagination Copy Share Image
I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Well, how could a reader notice that? There may be something lacking there I admit. But heavens above, they ought to count… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live; most of our faculties lie dormant because… — Marcel Proust Habit Copy Share Image
“precisely the same way the pastoral novels of George Sand, which she was giving me for my birthday, were regular lumber-rooms of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness… — Marcel Proust Absence Copy Share Image
We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...Swann had, as he shook the Marquise's hand, seen her bosom from close to and from above, he plunged an attentive, serious,… — Marcel Proust Bosom Copy Share Image
“A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The ray of light beneath his door is extinguished. It is midnight; some one has turned out the gas; the last servant… — Marcel Proust Light Copy Share Image
“One can feel an attraction towards a particular person. But to release that fount of sorrow, that sense of the irreparable, those… — Marcel Proust Attraction Copy Share Image
“I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
![“I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct ratio to the distance separating the sufferers from herself.” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/772/marcel-proust-114_compassion_i-came-to-recognise-that-apart-from-her_2814511.jpg)
