If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they… — Marcel Proust Cathedrals Copy Share Image
“De liefde? Die bedrijf ik vaak maar ik spreek er nooit over. (Mme de Villeparisis in 'De kant van Guermantes'.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.” — Marcel Proust Creative imagination Copy Share Image
“One would be cured for ever of romanticism if one could make up one’s mind, in thinking of the woman one loves,… — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
“...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance… — Marcel Proust Family Copy Share Image
“stood a saint with the full cheeks, the firm breasts which swelled out inside her draperies like a cluster of ripe grapes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make… — Marcel Proust Cry Copy Share Image
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“E recomecei a escutar, a sofrer; quando estamos à espera, do ouvido que recolhe os ruídos ao espírito que os despoja e… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“She remembered all the years in which my grandmother and she had refrained from speaking to me about my work and the… — Marcel Proust Grandmother Copy Share Image
Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
“And yet, my dear Charles Swann, whom I used to know when I was still so young and you were nearing your… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our… — 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 Copy Share Image
“day. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that… — Marcel Proust Evil thoughts Copy Share Image
“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“He laughingly expressed his surprise at having provoked such anger. Perhaps he said this in the hope of minimising in my eyes… — Marcel Proust Anger Copy Share Image
Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do… — Marcel Proust Affliction Copy Share Image
“Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment… — marcel proust Marcel-proust Copy Share Image
“Ali čak ni onda kad se radi o najbeznačajnijim stvarima u životu, mi nismo čvrsto sastavljena cjelina koja je istovjetna za svakoga,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The differences which exist between every one of our real impressions -- differences which explain why a uniform depiction of life cannot… — Marcel Proust Dreams Copy Share Image
“All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust Absurdity Copy Share Image
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust Acquisition Copy Share Image
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust Memories Copy Share Image
