Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. — Marcel Proust Creation Copy Share Image
“This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.” — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Achille Adrien Proust, was a famous doctor and epidemiologist, responsible for studying and attempting to remedy the causes and movements of cholera… — Marcel Proust Cholera Copy Share Image
La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater… — Marcel Proust Amour Copy Share Image
“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one… — Marcel Proust Dance Copy Share Image
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.” — Marcel Proust Conversation Copy Share Image
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way… — Marcel Proust Consciousness Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Abstract Copy Share Image
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no… — Marcel Proust Body Copy Share Image
“I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession… — Marcel Proust Courage Copy Share Image
So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten… — Marcel Proust Beautiful Copy Share Image
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though,… — Marcel Proust Drumming Copy Share Image
“We try to discover in things, which become precious to us on that account, the reflection of what our soul has projected… — Marcel Proust Reflection Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Animal Copy Share Image
“I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther… — Marcel Proust Communication Copy Share Image
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,… — Marcel Proust Affectionate Copy Share Image
“And, quite possibly, this lack (or seeming lack) of participation by a person's soul in the virtue of which he or she… — Marcel Proust Generosity Copy Share Image
“I was genuinely in love with Mme. de Guermantes. The greatest happiness that I could have asked of God would have been… — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
“The idea that one will die is more painful than dying, but less painful than the idea that another person is dead,… — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Ah! whatever you may say, it’s good to be alive all the same, my dear Amédée!” And then, abruptly, the memory of… — Marcel Proust Happiness Copy Share Image
“What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth. — Marcel Proust Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture,” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.” — Marcel Proust Definitive Copy Share Image
There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
