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When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smarter salons. Peop...
By Marcel Proust
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It nev...
By Marcel Proust
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expec...
By Marcel Proust
Perhaps it is nothingness which is real and our dream which is non-existent, but then we feel think that these musical phrases, and the notion...
By Marcel Proust
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at least in our thou...
By Marcel Proust
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europe has endured...
By Marcel Proust
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, a plant, an i...
By Marcel Proust
For women who do not love us, as for the 'disappeared', knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. W...
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As the Arab proverb says, 'The dog barks and the caravan passes'. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect...
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... whenever Odette told a stupid story, Swann listened to his wife with a compliance, a gaiety, almost an admiration where some remnants of s...
By Marcel Proust
A Carpaccio in Venice, la Berma in Phèdre, masterpieces of visual or theatrical art that the prestige surrounding them made so alive, that is...
By Marcel Proust
... automatically, worn out by the gloomy day and by the perspective of a sad tomorrow, I put in my mouth a spoonful of tea in which I had sof...
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.
By Marcel Proust
As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm, which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, Working for the King of Prussia.
By Marcel Proust
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
By Marcel Proust
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.
By Marcel Proust
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
By Marcel Proust
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
By Marcel Proust
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
By Marcel Proust
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
By Marcel Proust
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
By Marcel Proust