“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
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
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
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
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
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
“For in this respect love is not like war; after the battle is ended we renew the fight with keener ardour, which… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“For man is that ageless creature who has the faculty of becoming many years younger in a few seconds, and who, surrounded… — Marcel Proust Ageless Copy Share Image
“I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when… — Marcel Proust Dinner Copy Share Image
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her? I felt that she would have regarded me as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as… — Marcel Proust Every morning Copy Share Image
“You may not have heard, Duke, that there is a new word to describe that sort of attitude," said the archivist, who… — Marcel Proust Mentality Copy Share Image
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This… — Marcel Proust Cholera Copy Share Image
“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part,… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“No doubt I had had experience with Gilberte of the danger of letters expressing an indifference which, feigned at first, ends by… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour… — Marcel Proust Daybreak Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something… — Marcel Proust Pleasure Copy Share Image
“By shutting her eyes, by losing consciousness, Albertine had stripped off, one after another, the different human personalities with which we had… — Marcel Proust Full moon Copy Share Image
“We would come at length to the Mall, among whose treetops I could distinguish the steeple of Saint-Hilaire. And I should have… — Marcel Proust Hot sun 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
