The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.


Marcel Proust

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
MARCEL PROUST
All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of th...
MARCEL PROUST
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said t...
MARCEL PROUST
The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtai...
MARCEL PROUST
Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly bo...
MARCEL PROUST
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb t...
MARCEL PROUST
Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a crampe...
MARCEL PROUST
I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to h...
MARCEL PROUST
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream...
MARCEL PROUST
Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creatio...
MARCEL PROUST
I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost...
MARCEL PROUST
I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when ...
MARCEL PROUST
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST
I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abys...
MARCEL PROUST
Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly...
MARCEL PROUST
She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refr...
MARCEL PROUST
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
MARCEL PROUST
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be ...
MARCEL PROUST
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th...
MARCEL PROUST
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
MARCEL PROUST
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
MARCEL PROUST
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The ...
MARCEL PROUST
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, b...
MARCEL PROUST
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruel...
MARCEL PROUST
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
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