If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Snaps and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails, And dirty sluts in plenty, Smell sweeter than roses in young men’s noses When the heart… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.” — Marcel Proust Neurotics Copy Share Image
“The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth… — Marcel Proust Birth Copy Share Image
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she… — Marcel Proust Inspirational Copy Share Image
“one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor’s side with a. happy determination which deludes… — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can… — Marcel Proust Atheist Copy Share Image
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A man who is in the habit of smiling in the glass at his handsome face and stalwart figure, if you shew… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not… — Marcel Proust Conceptions Copy Share Image
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees,… — Marcel Proust Company Copy Share Image
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say so we represent that hour to ourselves… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
“Sadists’ of Mlle. Vinteuil’s sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so virtuous by nature, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as… — Marcel Proust Outward appearance Copy Share Image
“Then his tears came once more, and feeling cold he went into his dressing-room to look for something to throw around his… — Marcel Proust Parenting Copy Share Image
“In a recluse, the most irrevocable, lifelong rejection of the world often has as its basis an uncontrolled passion for the crowd,… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made an effort to begin at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle… — Marcel Proust Birth Copy Share Image
“The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Had I been less resolved to work, I would perhaps had made an effort to begin immediately. But since my resolution was… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead. — Marcel Proust Adultery Copy Share Image
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it? — Marcel Proust Education Copy Share Image
We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known. — Marcel Proust Being faithful Copy Share Image
“The universe is real for us all and dissimilar to each one of us.” — Marcel Proust Physics Copy Share Image
“We do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love.” — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
