The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“day. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To know a thing does not always enable us to prevent it, but at least the things we know we do hold,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“lived within a mile of the place." My grandmother, who held that, when one went to the seaside, one ought to be… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Like many other men, Swann had a naturally lazy mind and lacked imagination. He knew perfectly well as a general truth that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But none of the feeling which the joys or misfortunes of a real person arouse in us can be awakened except through… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the… — 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
