Famous Quotes / Marcel Proust
77 Quotations by Marcel Proust
- 41. People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the o ...
- 42. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very or ...
- 43. People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
- 44. That translucent alabaster of our memories.
- 45. The "sensitiveness" claimed by neurotics is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flauntin ...
- 46. The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
- 47. The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
- 48. The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
- 49. The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, ...
- 50. The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
- 51. The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourse ...
- 52. The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourse ...
- 53. The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them to ...
- 54. The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- 55. The only paradise is paradise lost.
- 56. The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplora ...
- 57. The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
- 58. The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- 59. The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
- 60. The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th ...