Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. — 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
