We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity” — Marcel Proust Thoughtful Copy Share Image
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. — Marcel Proust Continuity Copy Share Image
“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.” — Marcel Proust Pleasure Copy Share Image
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they… — Marcel Proust Freedom Copy Share Image
“It may, incidentally, be observed that the regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.” — Marcel Proust Absurdity Copy Share Image
“He was one of those susceptible, highly-strung persons who cannot bear to have made a blunder which, though they do not admit… — Marcel Proust Blunder Copy Share Image
The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to… — 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 Friends Copy Share Image
“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our… — Marcel Proust Goals Copy Share Image
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon… — Marcel Proust Comedy Copy Share Image
“Having a liking for someone is one thing; but to be afflicted with the sadness, the feeling of something irreparable having happened,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from… — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that… — Marcel Proust Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Next to this central belief which,while I was reading, would be constantly reaching out from my inner self to the outer world,… — Marcel Proust Actual life Copy Share Image
“And even before my brain, lingering in consideration of when things had happened and of what they had looked like, had sufficient… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Un día que habían salvado contra su voluntad a una viuda que se había arrojado al agua, mi abuela me había dicho… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a… — Marcel Proust Attitude Copy Share Image
“At the start of a new love as its ending, we are not exclusively attached to the object of that love, but… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
“I would revisit them all in the long course of my waking dream: rooms in winter, where on going to bed I… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
“There is a degree of resemblance between the women we love at different times; and this resemblance, though it devolves, derives from… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see… — Marcel Proust Change The Situation Copy Share Image
“We do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love.” — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable. — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. — Marcel Proust Moments Copy Share Image
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. — Marcel Proust People Copy Share Image
“The universe is real for us all and dissimilar to each one of us.” — Marcel Proust Physics Copy Share Image
We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known. — Marcel Proust Being faithful Copy Share Image
Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
