We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“A slap in the face or a box on the ear helps to educate not only children but poets.” — Marcel Proust Poetry Copy Share Image
Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language. — Marcel Proust Beautiful Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. — Marcel Proust Challenges Copy Share Image
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also. — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“Snobbery is with certain people analogous to those beverages in which the agreeable is mixed with the beneficial.” — Marcel Proust Snobbery Copy Share Image
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. — Marcel Proust Flowing Copy Share Image
“...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance… — Marcel Proust Family Copy Share Image
“It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.” — Marcel Proust Creative imagination Copy Share Image
“One would be cured for ever of romanticism if one could make up one’s mind, in thinking of the woman one loves,… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage. — Marcel Proust Charm Copy Share Image
“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they… — Marcel Proust Cathedrals Copy Share Image
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The resurrection at our awakening-after that beneficent attack of mental alienation which is sleep-must after all be similar to what occurs when… — Marcel Proust Memory Copy Share Image
“We try to discover in things, which become precious to us on that account, the reflection of what our soul has projected… — Marcel Proust Disillusioned Copy Share Image
The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as… — Marcel Proust Every morning Copy Share Image
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This… — Marcel Proust Cholera Copy Share Image
“You may not have heard, Duke, that there is a new word to describe that sort of attitude," said the archivist, who… — Marcel Proust Mentality Copy Share Image
“I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when… — Marcel Proust Dinner Copy Share Image
“For man is that ageless creature who has the faculty of becoming many years younger in a few seconds, and who, surrounded… — Marcel Proust Ageless Copy Share Image
“[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Venice behind him to return… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere… — Marcel Proust Art of living Copy Share Image
“seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it — more and more ardently, so as to cloak the absence of the power,… — Marcel Proust Belief Copy Share Image
“The costumes of these two ladies seemed to me like the materialisation, snow-white or patterned with colour, of their inner activity, and,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it would even happen that this precocious hour would sound two strokes more than the last; there must then have been… — Marcel Proust Silence Copy Share Image
“And thus it was she who first gave me the idea that a person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.” — Marcel Proust People Copy Share Image
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place. — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.” — Marcel Proust Being loved Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Marriage Copy Share Image
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. — Marcel Proust Imagination Copy Share Image
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