Marcel Proust Quotes

“But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:love heart

“Our hands do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:love self

“In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:love heart

“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life. How closely, in their abundance, are they pressed one against another; until lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour, as to count the...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:love

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:love loss

“in order to discover that we are in love, even perhaps in order to fall in love, the day of separation needs to arrive.”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

topic:love

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:life freedom

“The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

topic:death pain others

“beauty is the promise of happiness.”

― Marcel Proust, The Prisoner

topic:happiness beauty

“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:happiness

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