It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. — Marcel Proust Anorexia Copy Share Image
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. — Marcel Proust Decision making Copy Share Image
“People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. — Marcel Proust Imagination Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Marriage Copy Share Image
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.” — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment… — Marcel Proust Mistress Copy Share Image
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“a larger reality which had not been created for my benefit, from whose judgments there was no appeal, in the heart of… — Marcel Proust Friendship Copy Share Image
“Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me… — Marcel Proust Affection Copy Share Image
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a… — Marcel Proust Actual life Copy Share Image
We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Whatever one may say, writing a novel is a very different thing from living one. All the same our lives are not… — Marcel Proust Books 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,… — Marcel Proust Escape Copy Share Image
“Asparagus, tinged with ultramarine and rosy pink which ran from their heads, finely stippled in mauve and azure, through a series of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“what we love is too much in the past, consists too much in the time that we have spent together for us… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring… — Marcel Proust Botticelli Copy Share Image
“even when a political truth is enshrined in written documents, it is seldom that these have any more value than a radiographic… — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
“Alas, it was in vain that I implored the dungeon-keep of Roussainville, that I begged it to send out to meet me… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination — Marcel Proust Beautiful women Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. — Marcel Proust Challenges Copy Share Image
Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language. — Marcel Proust Beautiful Copy Share Image
“A slap in the face or a box on the ear helps to educate not only children but poets.” — Marcel Proust Poetry Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
