“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And it is because they contain thus within themselves the hours of the past that human bodies have the power to hurt… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We are, when we love, in an abnormal state, capable of giving at once to the most apparently simple accident, an accident… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“medical prescriptions, everything that she needed for the performance, in bed, of her duties to soul and body, to keep the proper… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. — Marcel Proust 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
“Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — 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
We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus… — 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
“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread… — 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
