The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There… — 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
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point… — 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
“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied)… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — 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
“Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Compared with that of a great artist, the friendliness of a great nobleman, however charming it may be, seems like play-acting, like… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a period of which he… — 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
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we… — 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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