“We passionately long for there to be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But… — Marcel Proust Another life Copy Share Image
“Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in… — Marcel Proust Creativity Copy Share Image
“Ainsi notre cœur change, dans la vie, et c’est la pire douleur; mais nous ne la connaissons que dans la lecture, en… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“But she was wrong; it was what gave her away; she had not taken into account that this fragmentary detail of the… — Marcel Proust Heart 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
“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my… — Marcel Proust Actual life Copy Share Image
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Albertine, sentada à minha frente e vendo que chegara a seu destino, deu alguns passos do fundo do vagão onde estávamos e… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a… — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
“Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My Dear Grandpapa, I’m appealing to your kindness for the sum of 13 francs that I would like to ask Monsieur Nathan… — Marcel Proust Bad habit Copy Share Image
“When we are in love with a woman we simply project on to her a state of our own soul; that consequently… — Marcel Proust Great man Copy Share Image
“With the girls, on the other hand, if the pleasure which I enjoyed was selfish, at least it was not based on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love… — Marcel Proust Daily life Copy Share Image
At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and… — Marcel Proust Admiration Copy Share Image
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This new concept of the "finest, highest achievement of art" had no sooner entered my mind than it located the imperfect enjoyment… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“We are, when we love, in an abnormal state, capable of giving at once to the most apparently simple accident, an accident… — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
“They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my… — Marcel Proust Phantoms Copy Share Image
The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at… — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
“My sole consolation when I went upstairs for the night was that Mamma would come in and kiss me after I was… — Marcel Proust Time Copy Share Image
“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's… — Marcel Proust Face to face Copy Share Image
“At such moments Gilberte’s plaits used to brush my cheek. They seemed to me, in the fineness of their grain, at once… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Actual life Copy Share Image
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and… — Marcel Proust Bears Copy Share Image
“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is… — Marcel Proust Emotion Copy Share Image
“Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it,… — Marcel Proust Psychology Copy Share Image
“In that way Vinteuil's phrase, like some theme, say, in Tristan, which represents to us also a certain acquisition of sentiment, has… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust Dream Copy Share Image
“Words present us with little pictures, clear and familiar, like those that are hung on the walls of schools to give children… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“the Finger of God, Whose Body might have been concealed below among the crowd of human bodies without fear of my confounding… — Marcel Proust Fear Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhanced by surprise.… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions,… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we are in love, our love is too vast to be wholly contained within ourselves; it radiates outwards, reaches the resistant… — Marcel Proust Beloved Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Anger Copy Share Image
“At this time of life one has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
