Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment. — Marcel Proust Imperishable Copy Share Image
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation. — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“The thought of being made comfortable gives him strength to endure his pain.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it? — Marcel Proust Education Copy Share Image
For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.] — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family… — Marcel Proust Certain age Copy Share Image
Like everybody who is not loved that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies it - our life - hides from us, made invisible by our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“And so it is with things that we shall later love the most. We meet them first as strangers who give us… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her [Gilberte's] face, grown almost ugly, reminded me then of those dreary beaches where the sea, ebbing far out, wearies one with… — Marcel Proust Beach Copy Share Image
“The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“the rule among the human race—a rule that naturally admits of exceptions—is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted,… — Marcel Proust Gentleness Copy Share Image
“…the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue,… — Marcel Proust Nature Copy Share Image
“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which… — Marcel Proust Egotism Copy Share Image
“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it — more and more ardently, so as to cloak the absence of the power,… — Marcel Proust Belief Copy Share Image
“And thus it was she who first gave me the idea that a person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it would even happen that this precocious hour would sound two strokes more than the last; there must then have been… — Marcel Proust Silence Copy Share Image
“The costumes of these two ladies seemed to me like the materialisation, snow-white or patterned with colour, of their inner activity, and,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in… — Marcel Proust Business Copy Share Image
“Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere… — Marcel Proust Art of living 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 Change Copy Share Image
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