Quotes by : Marcel Proust

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives....

... he was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought....

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those....

All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in....

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounded....

In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed....

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

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

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

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.