“Had my parents allowed me, when I read a book, to pay a visit to the region it described, I should have… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment… — marcel proust Copy Share Image
“The spinster noticed that her mother, who had seemed not displeased to remark that Mme d’Arpajon was one of those tired old… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“for they are produced whenever there needs to establish itself in the security necessary to its development a vice which Nature herself… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My mother had not forgotten the sad end of M. Vinteuil’s life, his complete absorption, first in having to play both mother… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, she grew alarmed on his account… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This was many years ago. The staircase wall on which I saw the rising glimmer of his candle has long since ceased… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then his tears came once more, and feeling cold he went into his dressing-room to look for something to throw around his… — 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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