The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And between the earth and its creatures I made no distinction. I had a desire for a peasant-girl from Méséglise or Roussainville,… — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
“since my aunt’s strength, which was completely drained by the slightest exertion, returned but drop by drop into the pool of her… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the afternoon sky a white moon would creep up like a little cloud, furtive, without display, suggesting an actress who… — Marcel Proust Moon Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann,… — Marcel Proust Contempt Copy Share Image
“It was evident to me then that I existed in the same manner as all other men, that I must grow old,… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where… — Marcel Proust Caste Copy Share Image
“From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays… — Marcel Proust Gardening 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
“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
“One of these passages of Bergotte, the third or fourth which I had detached from the rest, filled me with a joy… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is… — Marcel Proust Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“A little tap on the window pane, as though something had struck it, followed by a plentiful light falling sound, as of… — Marcel Proust Rain Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Adventure Copy Share Image
“My mother had not forgotten the sad end of M. Vinteuil’s life, his complete absorption, first in having to play both mother… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed… — Marcel Proust Continuity Copy Share Image
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is… — Marcel Proust Image Copy Share Image
To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a fault for which I must be punished, but… — Marcel Proust Consolation Copy Share Image
We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
“But then, even in the most significant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material… — Marcel Proust Daily life Copy Share Image
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“...infirmity alone makes us take notice and learn, and enables us to analyse mechanisms of which otherwise we should know nothing. A… — Marcel Proust Education Copy Share Image
I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man’s deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he… — Marcel Proust Recollection Copy Share Image
“…I suddenly discerned at my feet, crouching among the rocks for protection against the heat, the marine goddesses for whom Elstir had… — Marcel Proust Dark Copy Share Image
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the… — Marcel Proust Abyss Copy Share Image
“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled… — Marcel Proust Psychology Copy Share Image
“I was merely making more perceptible that binary rhythm which love adopts in all those who have too little confidence in themselves… — Marcel Proust Fall in love Copy Share Image
