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
“She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her… — 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
“Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind. — 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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