The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including, consequently, those which one believed to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We need, between us and the fish which, if we saw it for the first time cooked and served on a table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I would fix my eyes, without limit of time, upon the trunk of a distant tree, from behind which she must appear… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a… — 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
“There was a time when my ancestors were proud of the title of chamberlain or butler to the King," said the Baron.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Why, I have never anything to do. I am always free, and I always will be free if you want me.” — 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
“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than… — 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
