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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.


Marcel Proust

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MARCEL PROUST In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feel...
MARCEL PROUST It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused
MARCEL PROUST It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tediu...
MARCEL PROUST It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ...
MARCEL PROUST Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi...
MARCEL PROUST [T]his jealousy gave him, if anything, an agreeable chill, as, to the sad Parisian who is leaving Ve...
MARCEL PROUST My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, s...
MARCEL PROUST These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decid...
MARCEL PROUST The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some...
MARCEL PROUST It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, inv...
MARCEL PROUST Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosament...
MARCEL PROUST Para estar al borde del mar no hay más que cerrar los ojos.
MARCEL PROUST