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Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
— Marcel Proust
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
— Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
— Marcel Proust
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
— Marcel Proust
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
— Marcel Proust
This rubicund youth, with his blunt features, appeared for all the world to have a tomato instead of a head.
— Marcel Proust
But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.
— Marcel Proust
In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; ...
— Marcel Proust
Beckett . . . Joyce . . . Proust . . . Shakespeare
— Harold Bloom
His work kept on living, like the watches on the wrists of dead soldiers. [Said of Marcel Proust]
— Jean Cocteau
Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.
— Marcel Proust
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Proust's In Search of Lost Time?
— Haruki Murakami
How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.
— Marcel Proust
The breath of the enchanted wind mingles the fresh scent of the lilacs with the fragrance of the past.
— Marcel Proust
My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.
— Jack Kerouac
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
— Marcel Proust
His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.
— Marcel Proust
always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,
— Marcel Proust
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
— Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
— Marcel Proust
Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.
— Marcel Proust
Left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.
— Marcel Proust
The only paradise is paradise lost.
— Marcel Proust
Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.
— Lorrie Moore
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.
— Marcel Proust
But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;
— Marcel Proust
The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side' ...
— Marcel Proust
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
— Marcel Proust
The young woman's smiling lips met his caresses halfway, and her eyes shone in their depths like pools warmed by the sun.
— Marcel Proust
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.
— Norman MacCaig
Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
— Gloria Steinem
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.
— Theodor Adorno
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
— Marcel Proust
There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.
— Marcel Proust
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
— Marcel Proust
In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.
— Marcel Proust
Do you think it possible for a woman really to be touched by a man's being in love with her, and never to be unfaithful to him?
— Marcel Proust
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
— Marcel Proust
Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess
— Alan Bennett
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.
— Marcel Proust
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
— Marcel Proust
Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.
— Rebecca Makkai
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
— Marcel Proust
Each one of us is not a single person, but contains many persons who have not all the same moral value
— Marcel Proust
I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.
— Marcel Proust
We remember an atmosphere because girls were smiling in it.
— Marcel Proust
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
— Alexander Woollcott
What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence. — Christopher Hitchens
Friendship is in the end no more than: " ... a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
— Marcel Proust
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
— Marcel Proust
I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
— Marcel Proust
Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.
— William Gaddis
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
— Marcel Proust
"Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...
— Marcel Proust
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Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.
— Marcel Proust
It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.
— Marcel Proust
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.
— Marcel Proust
There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.
— Marcel Proust
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
— Samuel Beckett
What most enraptured me were the asparagus.
— Marcel Proust
The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ...
— Marcel Proust
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
— Marcel Proust
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
— Marcel Proust
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
— Marcel Proust
It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.
— Marcel Proust
Let us be gratefulto people who
make us happy;
they are the
charming gardeners
who make our
souls bloom. — Marcel Proust
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
— Marcel Proust
When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly host.
— Marcel Proust
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
— Marcel Proust
I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.
— Marcel Proust
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.
— Italo Svevo
All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ...
— Marcel Proust
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
— Eugenio Montale
One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)
— Marcel Proust
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
— Marcel Proust
