“It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“From that evening, Swann understood that the feeling which Odette had once had for him would never revive, that his hopes of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for something else.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“An impression of love is out of proportion to the other impressions of life, but when it is lost in their midst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one spends one’s time,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come. — 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
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
When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within… — 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
“A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Having a liking for someone is one thing; but to be afflicted with the sadness, the feeling of something irreparable having happened,… — 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
“We do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love.” — 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
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — 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
