Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside - they did not produce our beliefs, there,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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
“The pleasure which those girls were empowered to give me would have seemed less genuine, I should have had no faith in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — 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
“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it — more and more ardently, so as to cloak the absence of the power,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And thus it was she who first gave me the idea that a person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Next to this central belief which,while I was reading, would be constantly reaching out from my inner self to the outer world,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — 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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