Marcel Proust Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““«fabrication de la petite madeleine de Marcel Proust». Un paquete de ocho”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Marcel Proust
“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in: No caminho… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The end of the nineteenth century is often referred to as the "fin de siècle" because of its philosophy of decadence, and the first… — Phillip Dennis Cate Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman." Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“If one were to list all the cruelties and maltreatments, both physical and emotional, that parents and adults inflict on children under the guise… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. MARCEL PROUST” — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds"… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a… — Laurent Brancowitz Copy Share Image
I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain films can… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in: No caminho… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century novelist Marcel Proust said that, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes.” — Whitney Johnson Copy Share Image
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