“Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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
“Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“but they knew, either instinctively or from experience, that our impulsive emotions have but little influence over the course of our actions… — 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 time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A man who is in the habit of smiling in the glass at his handsome face and stalwart figure, if you shew… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The telephone was not yet at that date as commonly in use as it is today. And yet habit requires so short… — 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
“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“make use of some such alarm signals as mad-doctors adopt in dealing with their distracted patients; as by beating several times on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The ‘action’ began: to me it seemed all the more obscure because in those days, when I read to myself, I used… — 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)
