Swann's Way 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

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

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:life freedom

“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

“And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:time change memory

“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:women control

“it is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to find out about our own can be no more than what other people have shewn us.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:self others

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