Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Pois a posse do que se ama é uma alegria ainda maior do que o amor.” — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.” — Marcel Proust Childhood Copy Share Image
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence... — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.” — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form… — Marcel Proust Genius Copy Share Image
The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“čovek je stvorenje koje ne može da izađe izvan sebe, koje poznaje druge samo u sebi i koji laže ako tvrdi suprotno.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone." — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an… — Marcel Proust Friendship Copy Share Image
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. — Marcel Proust Emotion Copy Share Image
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs,… — Marcel Proust Belief Copy Share Image
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There… — Marcel Proust 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 Copy Share Image
“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us?… — Marcel Proust Consciousness Copy Share Image
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in… — Marcel Proust After death Copy Share Image
“No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms, only to regain them, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a period of which he… — Marcel Proust First met Copy Share Image
“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it—more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“I would amuse myself by watching the glass jars which the boys used to lower into the Vivonne, to catch minnows, and… — Marcel Proust Water Copy Share Image
“Had my parents allowed me, when I read a book, to pay a visit to the region it described, I should have… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“But the second kind seek out the women who love women, who can procure a young man for them and add to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof… — Marcel Proust Comedy Copy Share Image
“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
![“But the second kind seek out the women who love women, who can procure a young man for them and add to the pleasure which they get from finding themselves with him; much more, they can, in the same way, find the same pleasure with them as with a man. [...] For in the relationships they have with…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/marcel-proust-114_another-woman_but-the-second-kind-seek-out-the-women-w_1571786.jpg)
