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Marcel Proust Quotes

«Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Passion, Writing | Keywords: intervals
«Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Memory | Keywords: most recent
«We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.»
«It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part»
«It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is the beginning of beauty.»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Beauty
«A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.»
«There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires»
«A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Ideas | Keywords: communicates
«A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.»
«It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | Keywords: chained

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