“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared”… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Whatever one may say, writing a novel is a very different thing from living one. All the same our lives are not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“the Finger of God, Whose Body might have been concealed below among the crowd of human bodies without fear of my confounding… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“So as not to see anything any more, I turned towards the wall, but alas, what was now facing me was that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“there are things in our souls which we know not how much they mean to us. Or rather, if we live without… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...love, and consequently fear, of the crowd being one of the most powerful motives in all human beings...” — 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
![“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable, expecting material comfort from virtue and moral edification from wealth.” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/marcel-proust-114_character_for-her-fran-oise-wealth-was-like-a-nece_2687.jpg)
