Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.
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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 Para estar al borde del mar no hay más que cerrar los ojos. MARCEL PROUST