“How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Composers do not remember this lost fatherland, but each of them remains all his life unconsciously attuned to it; he is delirious… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find… — 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
“[...]however much one may love the poison that is destroying one, when one has compulsorily to do without it, and has had… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This calm which I had just enjoyed was the first apparition of that great intermittent force which was to wage war in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The woods, the vines, the very stones, were at one with the brightness of the sun and the unblemished sky, and even… — 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
![“[...]however much one may love the poison that is destroying one, when one has compulsorily to do without it, and has had to do without it for some time past, one cannot help attaching a certain value to the peace of mind which one had ceased to know, to the absence of emotion and suffering. If…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/392/marcel-proust-114_day-to-day_however-much-one-may-love-the-poison-tha_2809188.jpg)
![“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable, expecting material comfort from virtue and moral edification from wealth.” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/marcel-proust-114_character_for-her-fran-oise-wealth-was-like-a-nece_2687.jpg)
