Quotes by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

… But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

Character

Joy

Real

… in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.

Despair

Fall

Love

… we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.

Happy

Kindness

Love

…a writer’s works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Soul

Suffering

Water

…Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

Caring

Mistake

Strong

…that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

One Day

Order

Real

…the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Noses

Organs

Stupidity

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Dance

Dancing

Motivational

A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.

Heart

Opposites

Type

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Rainy Day

Weather

World

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Able

Abnormal

Absurdity

Achieve

Acquisition

Addresses

Adolescence

Adultery

Adversity

Affection

Age

Aids

Alienation

Amour

Animal

Anorexia

Anticipation

Anxiety

Appearance

Appreciation

Aristocracy

Army

Art

Artist

Asking

Assuming

Atheist

Atmosphere

Attachment

Attention

Attitude

August

Aunt

Avon

Barriers

Bearable

Beautiful

Beauty

Bed

Being Faithful

Being In Love

Belief

Believe

Benefits

Best Love

Black

Blood

Blue

Boat

Body

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Quotes by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

… we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.

…a writer’s works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

…Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

…that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.

…the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

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