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“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
“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
men
difference
“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
change
“She belonged to that one of the two divisions of the human race in which the untiring curiosity which the other half feels about the people whom it does not know is replaced by an unfailing interest in the people whom it does.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
society
people
“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”
―
Marcel Proust
,
Swann's Way
topic:
passion
character
“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
“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
“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
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