“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.” — Marcel Proust People Copy Share Image
“My only consolation when I am really sad is to love and to be loved.” — Marcel Proust Being loved Copy Share Image
“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place. — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also. — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“She was genuinely fond of us; she would have enjoyed the long luxury of weeping for our untimely decease;” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that… — 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, there,… — Marcel Proust Beliefs Copy Share Image
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we… — Marcel Proust Ashes Copy Share Image
“Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.” — Marcel Proust Speak the truth Copy Share Image
“Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written… — Marcel Proust Insanity Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Journey Copy Share Image
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do… — Marcel Proust Business Copy Share Image
Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“With the wisdom of people not in love who believe a man of sense should be unhappy only over a person who… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“But should a sensation from the distant past-like those musical instruments that record and preserve the sound and style of the various… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come… — Marcel Proust Action Copy Share Image
“We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or… — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
“This was many years ago. The staircase wall on which I saw the rising glimmer of his candle has long since ceased… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention… — Marcel Proust Parties Copy Share Image
“It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.” — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.” — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Glutton Copy Share Image
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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