“My sole consolation when I went upstairs for the night was that Mamma would come in and kiss me after I was… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house, by moonlight. “There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain. — 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
“And it was at that moment, too — thanks to a peasant who went past, apparently in a bad enough humour already,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon 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
“As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At such moments Gilberte’s plaits used to brush my cheek. They seemed to me, in the fineness of their grain, at once… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He… — 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
