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Marcel Proust Quotes
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors (Marcel Proust Quotes)
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal (Marcel Proust Quotes)
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors (Marcel Proust Quotes)
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry (Marcel Proust Quotes)
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one’s eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress (Marcel Proust Quotes)
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself (Marcel Proust Quotes)
I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc (Marcel Proust Quotes)
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state (Marcel Proust Quotes)
There’s nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one’s mind (Marcel Proust Quotes)
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be (Marcel Proust Quotes)
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety (Marcel Proust Quotes)
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her (Marcel Proust Quotes)
... Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness (Marcel Proust Quotes)
The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections (Marcel Proust Quotes)
May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far (Marcel Proust Quotes)
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion (Marcel Proust Quotes)
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet (Marcel Proust Quotes)