“All these my exaltation of mind has borne along with it and kept alive through the succession of the years, while all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This new concept of the "finest, highest achievement of art" had no sooner entered my mind than it located the imperfect enjoyment… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“since his mind no longer entertained any lofty ideals, he had ceased to believe in (although he could not have expressly denied)… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it.... — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We try to discover in things, which become precious to us on that account, the reflection of what our soul has projected… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we are waiting, the double trajectory, from the ear that gathers in the sounds to the mind that processes and analyzes… — 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
“... my body ... faithful guardian of a past which my mind should never have forgotten, brought back before my eyes ....” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope… — 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
