We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come;… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,… — Marcel Proust Giving Copy Share Image
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden… — Marcel Proust Journey Copy Share Image
“And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might… — Marcel Proust Criterion Copy Share Image
“It is in sickness that we are compelled to recognise that we do not live alone but are chained to a being… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my… — Marcel Proust Actual life Copy Share Image
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But she was wrong; it was what gave her away; she had not taken into account that this fragmentary detail of the… — Marcel Proust Heart Copy Share Image
“Ainsi notre cœur change, dans la vie, et c’est la pire douleur; mais nous ne la connaissons que dans la lecture, en… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“[My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her… — Marcel Proust Grandmother Copy Share Image
“We passionately long for there to be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But… — Marcel Proust Another life Copy Share Image
“For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is… — Marcel Proust Imagination Copy Share Image
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I lost all sense of the place in which I had gone to sleep, and when I awoke at midnight, not knowing… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“And so we ought not to fear in love, as in everyday life, the future alone, but even the past, which often… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day… — Marcel Proust Customs Copy Share Image
“When, on a summer evening, the melodious sky growls like a tawny lion, and everyone is complaining of the storm, it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and… — Marcel Proust Generosity Copy Share Image
“There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory… — Marcel Proust Growth Copy Share Image
“Saddened by the misfortune of the Jews, remembering his friendship with Christians, increasingly mannered and affected as time went on for reasons… — Marcel Proust Christianity Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at… — Marcel Proust Nature Copy Share Image
“We trust in love as we trust in life, without thinking of the underlying emptiness, without too much believing in it. We… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“No es resultado de la casualidad que los hombres intelectuales y sensibles se entreguen siempre a mujeres insensibles e inferiores y les… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last… — Marcel Proust Attention Copy Share Image
“My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, she grew alarmed on his account… — Marcel Proust Annoyance Copy Share Image
“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those… — Marcel Proust Daily life Copy Share Image
“How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who… — Marcel Proust Freedom Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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