“These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of… — Marcel Proust Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“But none of the feeling which the joys or misfortunes of a real person arouse in us can be awakened except through… — Marcel Proust Feelings Copy Share Image
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is… — Marcel Proust Image Copy Share Image
We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a fault for which I must be punished, but… — Marcel Proust Consolation Copy Share Image
“A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is… — Marcel Proust Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“One of these passages of Bergotte, the third or fourth which I had detached from the rest, filled me with a joy… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house, by moonlight. “There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
“Winter was come indeed bringing with it those pleasures of which the summer dreamer knows nothing—the delight when the fine and glittering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of… — Marcel Proust Another world Copy Share Image
“All those beings who revealed truths to me and who were no longer there, seemed to me to have lived a life… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them.… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays… — Marcel Proust Gardening Copy Share Image
“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“this same love for her own people, and her desire to establish the future greatness of her house on a solid foundation… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst… — Marcel Proust Arrogance Copy Share Image
That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the… — Marcel Proust Actors Copy Share Image
“I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit.… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“There are in our life any number of women whom we have never wished to see again, and who have quite naturally… — Marcel Proust Isolation Copy Share Image
“but they knew, either instinctively or from experience, that our impulsive emotions have but little influence over the course of our actions… — Marcel Proust Friendship Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Do you know, master book-lover,” he asked me, “this line of Paul Desjardins? Now are the woods all black, but still the… — Marcel Proust Blue sky Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But you are our equal, if not our superior," the Guermantes seemed, in all their actions, to be saying; and they said… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he… — Marcel Proust Amulet Copy Share Image
“To meet in Paris a fisher-girl from Balbec or a peasant-girl from Méséglise would have been like receiving the present of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
