“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within… — 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
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and… — 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
![“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)
