Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one… — William Empson Copy Share Image
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen 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
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne… — Howard Moss Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Anzi, da un punto di vista puramente realistico, i paesi che noi desideriamo tengono in ogni istante assai più posto nella nostra… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
