“Composers do not remember this lost fatherland, but each of them remains all his life unconsciously attuned to it; he is delirious… — Marcel Proust Composers Copy Share Image
“Like the fires caught and fixed by a great colourist from the impermanence of the atmosphere and the sun, so that they… — Marcel Proust Chrysanthemums 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 Nature Copy Share Image
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...for if our life is vagabond our memory is sedentary and though we ourselves rush ceaselessly forward our recollections, indissolubly bound to… — Marcel Proust Left behind Copy Share Image
“And if I asked him, “Do you know the Guermantes family?” Legrandin the talker would reply, “No, I have never cared to… — Marcel Proust Family Copy Share Image
“Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the… — Marcel Proust Goals Copy Share Image
“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those… — Marcel Proust Gratitude Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Human spirit Copy Share Image
“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like… — Marcel Proust Human life Copy Share Image
There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life,… — Marcel Proust Being wise Copy Share Image
“...As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and… — Marcel Proust Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The Prince’s name preserved, in the boldness with which its opening syllables were—to borrow an expression from music—attacked, and in the stammering… — Marcel Proust Courage Copy Share Image
“in other words each of those calm and melancholy days on which I did not see her, coming one after the other… — Marcel Proust Grief Copy Share Image
“The ineffable utterance of one solitary man, absent, perhaps dead (Swann did not know whether Vinteuil were still alive), breathed out above… — Marcel Proust Psychology Copy Share Image
“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“Besides, those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. As consolation can come… — Marcel Proust Grief Copy Share Image
“I could believe this all the more readily (and also that the caresses by which she would bring that savour to my… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to… — Marcel Proust Awareness Copy Share Image
“This torture inflicted on her by my great-aunt, the sight of my grandmother's vain entreaties, of her feeble attempts, doomed in advance,… — Marcel Proust Face to face Copy Share Image
“All these my exaltation of mind has borne along with it and kept alive through the succession of the years, while all… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly… — Marcel Proust Absence Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's… — Marcel Proust Botticelli Copy Share Image
“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are… — Marcel Proust Attraction Copy Share Image
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost… — Marcel Proust Memory Copy Share Image
“then we would enter what he called his “study,” a room whose walls were hung with prints which showed, against a dark… — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract… — Marcel Proust Contemplation Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“From that evening, Swann understood that the feeling which Odette had once had for him would never revive, that his hopes of… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
“Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void… — Marcel Proust Insightful Copy Share Image
“One morning indeed, I felt a sudden misgiving that she not only had left the house but had gone for good: I… — Marcel Proust Human life Copy Share Image
“all this made of the church for me something entirely different from the rest of the town: an edifice occupying, so to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“a middle-aged lady in a small country town, by doing no more than yield whole-hearted obedience to her own irresistible eccentricities, and… — Marcel Proust Daily life Copy Share Image
“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of… — Marcel Proust Death Copy Share Image
