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
“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. MARCEL PROUST” — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“She couldn't demand that Mrs. Proust get off the bed; it wasn't her bed. It wasn't her castle. She smiled. In fact… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust… — Michael Foley 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
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
“I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“So the days pass and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotised, as a child by a silver globe, by… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a… — Alain de Botton 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
“Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly… — Adam A. Watt Copy Share Image
“Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“-NONREADING- Bookstores don't provide a remote control for Proust, you can't switch to a soccer match, or a quiz show, win a… — Wisława Szymborska Here Copy Share Image
“Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“In my twenties if even a tenth reading of Mallarmé failed to yield up its treasures, the fault was mine, not his.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“...But it was above all that fragmentation of Albertine into many parts, into many Albertines, that was her sole mode of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“«fabrication de la petite madeleine de Marcel Proust». Un paquete de ocho” — Alain de Botton 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
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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