If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. — Marcel Proust Fantasy Copy Share Image
“I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.” — Marcel Proust Love Copy Share Image
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory. — Marcel Proust Memories Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Mind Copy Share Image
“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom… — Marcel Proust Action Copy Share Image
“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence” — Marcel Proust Books Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I had derived little benefit from being in Balbec, for which reason I was all the more determined to come back… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty. — Marcel Proust Beauty Copy Share Image
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool… — Marcel Proust Failure Copy Share Image
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honoured, but if… — Marcel Proust Esteem Copy Share Image
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth… — Marcel Proust Being in love Copy Share Image
“...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Eternal youth Copy Share Image
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the… — Marcel Proust Artist Copy Share Image
“I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some… — Marcel Proust Inspiration Copy Share Image
The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character,… — Marcel Proust Character Copy Share Image
“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“so, this evening, she said to my grandfather, “Yes, some day when the weather is fine I shall go for a drive… — Marcel Proust Motivation Copy Share Image
“Each of our actions, our words, our attitudes is cut off from the ‘world,’ from the people who have not directly perceived… — Marcel Proust Blank space Copy Share Image
“It may be that I might have inferred from the pages that life teaches us to diminish the value of what we… — Marcel Proust Book Copy Share Image
“Our slightest desire, though unique as a chord, nevertheless includes the fundamental notes on which the whole of our life is built.… — Marcel Proust Adventure Copy Share Image
“The names of Northern railway stations in a timetable where he would like to imagine himself stepping from the train on an… — Marcel Proust Children Copy Share Image
“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source… — Marcel Proust Music Copy Share Image
“We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.” — Marcel Proust Crime Copy Share Image
“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.” — Marcel Proust Being nice Copy Share Image
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. — Marcel Proust People Copy Share Image
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust Divorce Copy Share Image
“It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.” — Marcel Proust Art Copy Share Image
“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.” — Marcel Proust Grief Copy Share Image
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