I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And it is because they contain thus within themselves the hours of the past that human bodies have the power to hurt… — 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
“For every death is for others a simplification of life, it spares them the necessity of showing gratitude, the obligation of paying… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it—more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — 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
“The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In that way Vinteuil's phrase, like some theme, say, in Tristan, which represents to us also a certain acquisition of sentiment, has… — 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
“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“From that evening, Swann understood that the feeling which Odette had once had for him would never revive, that his hopes of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to… — Marcel Proust 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 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
“The suppression of suffering? Can I really have believed it, have believed that death merely strikes out what exists, and leaves everything… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At every new torment which is too hard to bear we feel yet another vein protrude, to unroll its sinuous and deadly… — 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
