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Marcel Proust Quotes
“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
passion
“With a woman who does not love us, as with someone who has died, the knowledge that there is nothing left to hope for does not prevent us from going on waiting.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
topic:
hope
waiting
“Our memories and our hearts are not large enough to remain faithful. We have not room enough, in our present mental space, to keep the dead alongside the living.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
The Guermantes Way
topic:
memory
“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste...”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
memory
“it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Finding Time Again
topic:
memory
past
“Anxiously he explored every one of these vaguely seen shapes, as though among the phantoms of the dead, in the realms of darkness, he had been searching for a lost Eurydice.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
darkness
“A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm,...”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
music
“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, of which they make no use in the specialised...”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
science
“To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
suffering
thinking
“In short, my aunt stipulated, at one and the same time, that whoever came to see her must approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of an ultimate recovery.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
suffering
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