What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. — Marcel Proust Emotion Copy Share Image
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
“And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit.” — Marcel Proust Habits Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.” — Marcel Proust Failure 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
“He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to… — Marcel Proust Blunder Copy Share Image
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice… — Marcel Proust Exile Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“medical prescriptions, everything that she needed for the performance, in bed, of her duties to soul and body, to keep the proper… — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
“For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written… — Marcel Proust Insanity Copy Share Image
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and… — Marcel Proust Autumn 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 had been taught in her girlhood to fondle and cherish those long-necked, sinuous creatures, the phrases of Chopin, so free, so… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Beyond these the flowers were more frequent, but paler, less glossy, more thickly seeded, more tightly folded, and disposed, by accident, in… — Marcel Proust Flowers Copy Share Image
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death… — Marcel Proust Abstract Copy Share Image
“The name Gilberte passed close by me, evoking all the more forcibly her whom it labelled in that it did not merely… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including, consequently, those which one believed to… — Marcel Proust Causation Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Doing nothing Copy Share Image
“I remained serious. For one thing, I thought it stupid of her to appear to believe or to wish other people to… — Marcel Proust Humor Copy Share Image
“We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.” — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Discovery Copy Share Image
“Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.” — Marcel Proust Mother Copy Share Image
“...she judged frivolous reading to be as unhealthy as sweets and pastries...” — Marcel Proust Reading Copy Share Image
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