Quotes by : Marcel Proust

You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies....

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having....

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have....

It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

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

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten....

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they....

Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of....