Quotes Tagged With :proust

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of....

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does....

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas....

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

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of....

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real.....

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers,....

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood."That's where everything starts,"....

In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself,....

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior....