“The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He laughingly expressed his surprise at having provoked such anger. Perhaps he said this in the hope of minimising in my eyes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread… — 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
“Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostriches, the kind that bury their heads not… — 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
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Besides, those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. As consolation can come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And each time the cowardice that deters us from every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thing… — 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)
