It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises,… — 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
Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most… — 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
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and… — 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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