“For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.” — Marcel Proust Heart Copy Share Image
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing. — Marcel Proust Destination Copy Share Image
“Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum.” — Marcel Proust Dog Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“could still believe in their possible presence; for memory was now set in motion;” — Marcel Proust Memory Copy Share Image
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.” — Marcel Proust Habit Copy Share Image
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As by an electric current that gives us a shock, I have been shaken by my loves, I have lived them, I… — Marcel Proust Electric current Copy Share Image
“...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to… — Marcel Proust Certainty Copy Share Image
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“recalling our life in the old days at Combray with my great-aunt, at Balbec, Paris, Doncières, Venice, and the rest;” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
“And even in my most carnal desires, oriented always in a particular direction, concentrated round a single dream, I might have recognized… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied)… — Marcel Proust Mind Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“she was so humble and so sweet that her gentleness towards others, and her continual subordination of herself and of her own… — Marcel Proust Gentleness Copy Share Image
It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event… — Marcel Proust Army Copy Share Image
“Oh, my poor little hawthorns,” I was assuring them through my sobs, “it is not you that want to make me unhappy,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For it was the one that I would have chosen above all others, convinced as I was, with a botanist’s satisfaction, that… — Marcel Proust Flower Copy Share Image
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