What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Why, I have never anything to do. I am always free, and I always will be free if you want me.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...love, and consequently fear, of the crowd being one of the most powerful motives in all human beings...” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One would be cured for ever of romanticism if one could make up one’s mind, in thinking of the woman one loves,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This calm which I had just enjoyed was the first apparition of that great intermittent force which was to wage war in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Although she failed to grasp the meaning of this speech, she did understand that it might belong to the category of 'scoldings'… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“With the wisdom of people not in love who believe a man of sense should be unhappy only over a person who… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We are, when we love, in an abnormal state, capable of giving at once to the most apparently simple accident, an accident… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we are in love with a woman we simply project on to her a state of our own soul; that consequently… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“All those beings who revealed truths to me and who were no longer there, seemed to me to have lived a life… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.” — 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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