Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. — Marcel Proust Falsehood Copy Share Image
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing. — Marcel Proust Destination Copy Share Image
“Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum.” — Marcel Proust Dog Copy Share Image
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.” — Marcel Proust Desire Copy Share Image
“I feel infinite sadness at seeing how few people are genuinely kind.” — Marcel Proust Being kind Copy Share Image
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — Marcel Proust Cathedral Copy Share Image
“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit” — Marcel Proust Life Copy Share Image
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
“...my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to… — Marcel Proust Depth Copy Share Image
“I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.” — Marcel Proust Sleep Copy Share Image
“[…] e chorei de alegria e confiança sobre as páginas do escritor como nos braços de um pai reencontrado." Marcel Proust, in:… — Marcel Proust Amor Copy Share Image
“The spinster noticed that her mother, who had seemed not displeased to remark that Mme d’Arpajon was one of those tired old… — Marcel Proust Old people Copy Share Image
“this early Swann in whom I can distinguish the charming mistakes of my childhood, and who, incidentally, is less like his successor… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“The ‘action’ began: to me it seemed all the more obscure because in those days, when I read to myself, I used… — Marcel Proust Habits Copy Share Image
“But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Princes know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs; besides, they believe themselves to be so far above everything that is… — Marcel Proust Class Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When I saw any external object, my consciousness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, enclosing it in… — Marcel Proust Consciousness Copy Share Image
“And more even than the painter, the writer, in order to achieve volume and substance, in order to attain to generality and,… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A woman sees herself dying, in these cases not at the actual moment of death but months, sometimes years before, when death… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The lie, the perfect lie, about people we know, about the relations we have with them, about our motive for some action,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But, don’t you see, since we happened to have M. de Cambremer here, and he is a Marquis, while you are only… — Marcel Proust Final words Copy Share Image
“Compared with that of a great artist, the friendliness of a great nobleman, however charming it may be, seems like play-acting, like… — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.” — Marcel Proust Heart Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“could still believe in their possible presence; for memory was now set in motion;” — Marcel Proust Memory Copy Share Image
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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