Best Marcel Proust Quotations
- The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we… Art
- The most powerful soporific is sleep itself. Inspirational
- An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates. Climate
- When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang… Age
- The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us..... Like Souls
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see… Art
- The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. Beginning
- Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary… Effect
- Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again! All
- What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. Art
- The heart does not lie. Doe
- A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… Aesthetic
- A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute,… Acute
- There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. Carry
- In love, happiness is an abnormal state. Abnormal
- Death is in truth an illness from which we recover Death
- A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a… Elicits
- The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. Climb
- When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest. Catching
- All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. Activity
- A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. Art
- I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first… All
- They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. Better
- At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. Company
- After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. Age
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