The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as… — Marcel Proust Humans Copy Share Image
It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and… — Marcel Proust Feelings Copy Share Image
“I would lay my cheeks gently against the comfortable cheeks of my pillow, as plump and blooming as the cheeks of babyhood.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.” — Marcel Proust Deception Copy Share Image
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. — Marcel Proust Intelligence Copy Share Image
Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“but whenever I thought about them I pictured them to myself either in tapestry, as was the ‘Coronation of Esther’ which hung… — Marcel Proust Tapestry Copy Share Image
“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more,… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly… — Marcel Proust Arts Copy Share Image
However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders… — Marcel Proust Calm 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could… — Marcel Proust August Copy Share Image
“grasses, convinced of the hostility of the violet curtains and of the insolent indifference of a clock that chattered on at the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting… — Marcel Proust Heart Copy Share Image
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
“But for the invert vice begins, not when he establishes a relationship (for too many reasons may govern that), but when he… — Marcel Proust Homosexuality Copy Share Image
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that… — Marcel Proust Lying Copy Share Image
“Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.” — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust Discovery Copy Share Image
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance if catching… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Relations which are not sanctioned by the law establish bonds of kinship as manifold, as complex, and even more solid, than those… — Marcel Proust Kinship Copy Share Image
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. — Marcel Proust Folly Copy Share Image
“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed… — Marcel Proust Evil Copy Share Image
Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it… — Marcel Proust Avon Copy Share Image
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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