Proustian Quotes
- The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to… — Rene Dubos
- The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey
- It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop… — Harold McGee
- It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps… — Allan Massie
- One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself… — Harold Bloom
- Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very… — Daphne Guinness
- The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. — Mike Mills
- My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room… — Hamish Bowles
- Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me… — Todd Haynes