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
“The truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and… — 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
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come;… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Composers do not remember this lost fatherland, but each of them remains all his life unconsciously attuned to it; he is delirious… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We passionately long for there to be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so… — 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
“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us… — 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
“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 reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — 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
“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“People who learn some correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The idea that one will die is more painful than dying, but less painful than the idea that another person is dead,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“His life and family circle changed considerably between 1900 and 1905. In February 1903, Proust's brother Robert married and left the family… — 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
