There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“They seemed nothing more now than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creatures of my temperament” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“... my body ... faithful guardian of a past which my mind should never have forgotten, brought back before my eyes …” — Marcel Proust Past Copy Share Image
L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into… — Marcel Proust Adultery Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere… — Marcel Proust Awareness Copy Share Image
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving… — Marcel Proust Absolutes Copy Share Image
“This calm which I had just enjoyed was the first apparition of that great intermittent force which was to wage war in… — Marcel Proust Apparition Copy Share Image
“She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the… — Marcel Proust Curiosity Copy Share Image
“At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“a larger reality which had not been created for my benefit, from whose judgments there was no appeal, in the heart of… — Marcel Proust Friendship Copy Share Image
The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that… — Marcel Proust Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we are in love, our love is too vast to be wholly contained within ourselves; it radiates outwards, reaches the resistant… — Marcel Proust Beloved Copy Share Image
“During those periods in which our bitterness of spirit, though steadily diminishing, still persists, a distinction must be drawn between the bitterness… — Marcel Proust Anger Copy Share Image
“I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house, by moonlight. “There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said… — Marcel Proust Darkness Copy Share Image
“Winter was come indeed bringing with it those pleasures of which the summer dreamer knows nothing—the delight when the fine and glittering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“All those beings who revealed truths to me and who were no longer there, seemed to me to have lived a life… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of… — Marcel Proust Another world Copy Share Image
“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them.… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.” — Marcel Proust Flowers Copy Share Image
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.” — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“But, as my sister says, ‘there must always be poor people so that now that I’m rich I can shit on them.” — Marcel Proust Money Copy Share Image
“Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.” — Marcel Proust Clothes Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only… — Marcel Proust Bad choices Copy Share Image
“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that… — Marcel Proust Beliefs Copy Share Image
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“it was the moment in which a sane man who is talking to a lunatic has not yet perceived that his companion… — Marcel Proust Madness Copy Share Image
“Proust's life changed due to a very large inheritance he received (in today's terms, a principal of about $6 million, with a… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. — Marcel Proust Neurotics Copy Share Image
“And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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