Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image “Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Human beings have a fundamental need for physical and emotional space, and the desire to extinguish another life can arise when the boundaries of… — Kanae Minato Copy Share Image
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — 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 which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
