The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — 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
“Our slightest desire, though unique as a chord, nevertheless includes the fundamental notes on which the whole of our life is built.… — 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
“But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Yes, I have been forced to whittle down the facts, and to be a liar, but it is not one universe, but… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace… — 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
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...for if our life is vagabond our memory is sedentary and though we ourselves rush ceaselessly forward our recollections, indissolubly bound to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I had reached the point, at Balbec, of regarding the pleasure of playing with a troop of girls as less destructive of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My mother had not forgotten the sad end of M. Vinteuil’s life, his complete absorption, first in having to play both mother… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We trust in love as we trust in life, without thinking of the underlying emptiness, without too much believing in it. We… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I lost all sense of the place in which I had gone to sleep, and when I awoke at midnight, not knowing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live; most of our faculties lie dormant because… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great… — 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
“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At this time of life one has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves… — 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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