It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.

Lygiai taip gyvenime keičiasi ir mūsų širdis, ir tai skaudžiausia; tačiau patiriame tą skausmą tik skaitydami knygas, vaizduotėje; tikrovėje jos keitimasis, kaip ir kai kurių gamtos reiškinių vyksmas yra toks lėtas, kad nors ir galime konstatuoti kiekvieną atskirą būseną, paties keitimosi pajusti nepajėgiame.


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We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honou...
MARCEL PROUST
...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is ...
MARCEL PROUST
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pai...
MARCEL PROUST
Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. Wh...
MARCEL PROUST
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees
MARCEL PROUST
It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
MARCEL PROUST
The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunti...
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
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians
MARCEL PROUST
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it ...
MARCEL PROUST
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent
MARCEL PROUST
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
MARCEL PROUST
It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over...
MARCEL PROUST
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I h...
MARCEL PROUST
... whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud...
MARCEL PROUST
... I felt that I was not penetrating to the full depth of my impression, that something more lay be...
MARCEL PROUST
Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it woul...
MARCEL PROUST
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
MARCEL PROUST
The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she ...
MARCEL PROUST
It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blas...
MARCEL PROUST
All these things and, still more than these, the treasures which had come to the church from persona...
MARCEL PROUST
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness ...
MARCEL PROUST
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ou...
MARCEL PROUST
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not p...
MARCEL PROUST
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
MARCEL PROUST
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUST
The true paradises are the lost paradises.
MARCEL PROUST
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUST
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them
MARCEL PROUST
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
MARCEL PROUST
We don't receive wisdom; We must discover it.
MARCEL PROUST
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about ...
MARCEL PROUST
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
MARCEL PROUST
All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of th...
MARCEL PROUST
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said t...
MARCEL PROUST
The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtai...
MARCEL PROUST
Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly bo...
MARCEL PROUST
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb t...
MARCEL PROUST
Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a crampe...
MARCEL PROUST
I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to h...
MARCEL PROUST
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream...
MARCEL PROUST
Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creatio...
MARCEL PROUST
I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost...
MARCEL PROUST
I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when ...
MARCEL PROUST
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST
I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abys...
MARCEL PROUST
Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly...
MARCEL PROUST
She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refr...
MARCEL PROUST
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
MARCEL PROUST
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be ...
MARCEL PROUST
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th...
MARCEL PROUST
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
MARCEL PROUST
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
MARCEL PROUST
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The ...
MARCEL PROUST
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, b...
MARCEL PROUST
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruel...
MARCEL PROUST
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
MARCEL PROUST
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feel...
MARCEL PROUST
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused
MARCEL PROUST
It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tediu...
MARCEL PROUST
It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ...
MARCEL PROUST
Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi...
MARCEL PROUST
[T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Ve...
MARCEL PROUST
My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, s...
MARCEL PROUST
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decid...
MARCEL PROUST
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some...
MARCEL PROUST
It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, inv...
MARCEL PROUST
Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosament...
MARCEL PROUST