“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.” — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for something else.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were” — Marcel Proust Nostalgia Copy Share Image
Love…, ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come. — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.” — Marcel Proust Joy Copy Share Image
...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.. — Marcel Proust Memories Copy Share Image
“To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to… — Marcel Proust Travel Copy Share Image
L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something. — Marcel Proust Adolescence Copy Share Image
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings… — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
“I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In vain I called upon it now. In vain I compressed the whole landscape into my field of vision, draining it with… — Marcel Proust Animals Copy Share Image
“Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and… — Marcel Proust Change Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at… — Marcel Proust Hope Copy Share Image
Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her,… — Marcel Proust Hate Copy Share Image
“As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec,… — Marcel Proust Blossom Copy Share Image
“The pleasure which those girls were empowered to give me would have seemed less genuine, I should have had no faith in… — Marcel Proust Faith Copy Share Image
“When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame… — Marcel Proust Courage Copy Share Image
“While Elstir, at my request, went on painting, I wandered about in the half-light, stopping to examine first one picture, then another.… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to… — Marcel Proust Grandfather Copy Share Image
“M. Vinteuil...carried politeness and consideration for others to such scrupulous lengths, always putting himself in their place, that he was afraid of… — Marcel Proust Consideration for others Copy Share Image
“I should count myself most fortunate..." Swann was beginning, a trifle pompously, when the Doctor broke in derisively. Having once heard it… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that the beauty of the trees was hers also, and that, as for the spirit of those horizons,… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“thus it is that egoists have always the last word; having posited at the start that their resolution is unshakeable, the more… — Marcel Proust Last Word Copy Share Image
“Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.” — Marcel Proust Escape Copy Share Image
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she looks on us with contempt,” — Marcel Proust Contempt Copy Share Image
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it. — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust Intellect Copy Share Image
![“I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her, to force her to keep some memory of me. I thought her so beautiful that I should have liked to be able to retrace my steps so as to shake my fist at her and shout, "I think you're hideous…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe1/marcel-proust-114_hate_i-loved-her-gilberte-i-was-sorry-not-to_858858.jpg)
