The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Part of the beauty—and it is the original flaw in this type of literature, from which the famous Lundis are not exempt—lies… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“what we love is too much in the past, consists too much in the time that we have spent together for us… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhanced by surprise.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that the beauty of the trees was hers also, and that, as for the spirit of those horizons,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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