“Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“precisely the same way the pastoral novels of George Sand, which she was giving me for my birthday, were regular lumber-rooms of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness… — Marcel Proust Absence Copy Share Image
“M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared”… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“Who cannot recall, as I can, the reading they did in the holidays, which one would conceal successively in all those hours… — Marcel Proust Reading Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But you are our equal, if not our superior," the Guermantes seemed, in all their actions, to be saying; and they said… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he… — Marcel Proust Amulet Copy Share Image
“To meet in Paris a fisher-girl from Balbec or a peasant-girl from Méséglise would have been like receiving the present of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There are in our life any number of women whom we have never wished to see again, and who have quite naturally… — Marcel Proust Isolation Copy Share Image
“but they knew, either instinctively or from experience, that our impulsive emotions have but little influence over the course of our actions… — Marcel Proust Friendship Copy Share Image
“Do you know, master book-lover,” he asked me, “this line of Paul Desjardins? Now are the woods all black, but still the… — Marcel Proust Blue sky Copy Share Image
Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“it was only at that moment—more than a year after her burial, because of the anachronism which so often prevents the calendar… — Marcel Proust Anachronism Copy Share Image
“The suppression of suffering? Can I really have believed it, have believed that death merely strikes out what exists, and leaves everything… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. “It is a mistake,” Labruyère tells us, “to be… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the… — Marcel Proust Art 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
“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
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of… — Marcel Proust Life 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
“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Virtue 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
“We ought never to lose our tempers with people who, when we find them at fault, begin to snigger. They do so… — Marcel Proust Displeasure Copy Share Image
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature… — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
“To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the… — Marcel Proust Nature Copy Share Image
“It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tedium of having to rejoin… — Marcel Proust Breaking up Copy Share Image
“For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to the exhilaration which I derived from being alone would be added an alternative feeling, so that I could not be… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
“Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the… — Marcel Proust Habits Copy Share Image
“If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon… — Marcel Proust Adventure Copy Share Image
