The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.” — Marcel Proust Instinct Copy Share Image
Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination. — Marcel Proust Femme Copy Share Image
“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.” — Marcel Proust Business Copy Share Image
“Those who have played a big part in one’s life very rarely disappear from it suddenly for good. They return to it… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“L'amour commence, on voudrait rester pour celle qu'on aime l'inconnu qu'elle peut aimer mais on a besoin d'elle, on a besoin de… — Marcel Proust Amour Copy Share Image
“People who learn some correct detail about another person's life at once draw conclusions from it which are not accurate, and see… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them,… — Marcel Proust Drugs Copy Share Image
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we… — Marcel Proust Attention Copy Share Image
“The hefty figure of M. de Guermantes was seated beside her, proud and Olympian. One got the impression that the notion of… — Marcel Proust Godlike Copy Share Image
... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,… — Marcel Proust Book 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 but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“At this time of life one has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of… — Marcel Proust Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“But none of the feeling which the joys or misfortunes of a real person arouse in us can be awakened except through… — Marcel Proust Feelings Copy Share Image
“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions,… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.” — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Discovery Copy Share Image
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price. — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
“Then the concerts came to an end, the weather turned bad and my girls left Balbec, not all at once, as the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.” — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.” — Marcel Proust Gratification Copy Share Image
“Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music… — Marcel Proust Music Copy Share Image
Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with… — Marcel Proust Cowardice Copy Share Image
“His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We dream much of paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die,… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom… — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
“when the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand,… — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
“The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.” — Marcel Proust Intelligence Copy Share Image
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