Proust Quotes

We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea ...

Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to...

All these things and, still more than these, the treasures which had come to the church from persona...

A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only thro...

This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that on...

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she m...

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounde...

He had so long since ceased to direct his life toward any ideal goal, and had confined himself to th...

...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in ...

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house o...

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with t...

In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself,...

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superi...

We would like to go and see the field that Millet…shows us in his Springtime, we would like Claude M...

... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can...

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ...