“this early Swann in whom I can distinguish the charming mistakes of my childhood, and who, incidentally, is less like his successor… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — 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 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
“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to… — 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 Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.” — 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
![“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be in love without an ample fortune.” There is nothing for it but to attempt a gradual elimination of our desire for that pleasure. [...] But the pleasure can never be realised…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/270/marcel-proust-114_change_we-desire-some-pleasure-and-the-material_1932257.jpg)
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