“It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity… — 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
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only,"… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and… — 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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