Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — 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
The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — 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
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a… — 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 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
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — 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
The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — 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
“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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