Quotes by : Marcel Proust

Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us....

I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the....

She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about....

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other....

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

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty,....

I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching....

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the....