“Sometimes, on days when the weather was beyond redemption, mere residence in the house, situated in the midst of a steady and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an… — 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
“What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I have friends wherever there are clusters of trees, stricken but not defeated, which have come together with touching perseverance to offer… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — 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