For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the… — Marcel Proust Age Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing,” he now assured himself, “that when people pass judgment upon their neighbour, their finding is based upon… — Marcel Proust Judgment Copy Share Image
“I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“He lives at Balbec?” crooned the Baron in a tone so far from interrogatory that it is regrettable that the written language… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Truth and life are very difficult to fathom, and I retained of them, without really having got to know them, an impression… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Not that the clear perception of certain weaknesses in those whom we love in any way diminishes our affection for them; rather… — Marcel Proust Affection 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“To know a thing does not always enable us to prevent it, but at least the things we know we do hold,… — Marcel Proust Illusion Copy Share Image
Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that… — Marcel Proust Habit Copy Share Image
“We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always,… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“When we are waiting, the double trajectory, from the ear that gathers in the sounds to the mind that processes and analyzes… — Marcel Proust Psychology Copy Share Image
“It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We… — Marcel Proust Acquaintance Copy Share Image
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one… — Marcel Proust Earth Copy Share Image
“…inebriation brings about for an hour or two a state of subjective idealism, pure phenomenalism; everything is reduced to appearances and exists… — Marcel Proust Inebriation Copy Share Image
“The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do… — Marcel Proust Hope Copy Share Image
“And so it is that the bulk of what appear to be the emotional renderings of our inmost sensations do no more… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I might go alone as far as the porch of Saint-André-des-Champs: never did I find there the girl whom I should inevitably… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Amusement Copy Share Image
“I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread… — Marcel Proust Hope Copy Share Image
“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink… — Marcel Proust Gratitude Copy Share Image
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“If the conversations of two people bound by a tie of intimacy are full of lies, these crop up no less spontaneously… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment… — Marcel Proust Fashion Copy Share Image
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces… — Marcel Proust Company Copy Share Image
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not… — Marcel Proust Captivity Copy Share Image
We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
![“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any act of servility if the need arose, and was incapable of gratitude. In which he resembled the majority of mankind.” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d80/marcel-proust-114_gratitude_i-concluded-all-the-same-from-this-first_3206472.jpg)
