Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly… — 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
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination. — 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
