For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. — Marcel Proust Anxiety Copy Share Image
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in… — Marcel Proust Every moment Copy Share Image
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sunrise is a necessary concomitant of long railway journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers upon which boats strain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes. — Marcel Proust Discovery Copy Share Image
“O ciúme nada mais é muitas vezes do que uma inquieta necessidade de tirania aplicada às coisas do amor.” — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.” — Marcel Proust Friends Copy Share Image
“Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman’s… — Marcel Proust Business Copy Share Image
“A amante que acossamos, a amante que suspeitamos que está prestes a trair-nos, é a própria vida, e, embora já não a… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage… — Marcel Proust Discovery Copy Share Image
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live,… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking?… — Marcel Proust August Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“...there is no brew so deadly that it cannot at certain moments become precious and invigorating by giving us just the stimulus… — Marcel Proust Time Copy Share Image
“madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There is no man,’ he began, ‘however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And it was at that moment, too — thanks to a peasant who went past, apparently in a bad enough humour already,… — Marcel Proust Affection Copy Share Image
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts… — Marcel Proust Chance Copy Share Image
“The zone of melancholy which I then entered was as distinct from the zone in which I had been bounding with joy… — Marcel Proust Bird flying Copy Share Image
“And it is because they contain thus within themselves the hours of the past that human bodies have the power to hurt… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Doctor Copy Share Image
“Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the… — Marcel Proust Psychoanalysis Copy Share Image
“Although she failed to grasp the meaning of this speech, she did understand that it might belong to the category of 'scoldings'… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Anzi, da un punto di vista puramente realistico, i paesi che noi desideriamo tengono in ogni istante assai più posto nella nostra… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. — Marcel Proust Habit Copy Share Image
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and… — Marcel Proust Habit Copy Share Image
“...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.” — Marcel Proust Clarity Copy Share Image
“For every death is for others a simplification of life, it spares them the necessity of showing gratitude, the obligation of paying… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
“I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor’s side with a. happy determination which deludes… — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she… — Marcel Proust Inspirational Copy Share Image
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can… — Marcel Proust Atheist Copy Share Image
When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth… — Marcel Proust Birth Copy Share Image
We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another. — Marcel Proust Flowing Copy Share Image
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