“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,… — 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 Copy Share Image
“I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house, by moonlight. “There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said… — Marcel Proust 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 Copy Share Image
“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. — 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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