A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. — 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
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in… — 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)
