And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the… — 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
Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way… — 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
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