Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. — Marcel Proust Falsehood Copy Share Image
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust Intellect Copy Share Image
“it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she looks on us with contempt,” — Marcel Proust Contempt Copy Share Image
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it. — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment. — Marcel Proust Imperishable Copy Share Image
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.” — Marcel Proust Speak the truth 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
“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
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was… — Marcel Proust Snobbery Copy Share Image
“a larger reality which had not been created for my benefit, from whose judgments there was no appeal, in the heart of… — Marcel Proust Friendship Copy Share Image
The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that… — Marcel Proust Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do… — Marcel Proust Business Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Journey Copy Share Image
Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we… — Marcel Proust 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
“Like many other men, Swann had a naturally lazy mind and lacked imagination. He knew perfectly well as a general truth that… — Marcel Proust Human life Copy Share Image
“Despite the heavy, motionless silence of the hawthorns, these gusts of fragrance came to me like the murmuring of an intense vitality,… — Marcel Proust Flower 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
“Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly, in some accident, she who was out of doors in the streets, crossing busy… — Marcel Proust Heart 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
“It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence... — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.” — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
“Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.” — Marcel Proust Childhood Copy Share Image
“Pois a posse do que se ama é uma alegria ainda maior do que o amor.” — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
