This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one… — 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
