Quotes Tagged With :proust

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

All these things and, still more than these, the treasures which had come to the church from personages....

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss....

Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They....

This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one....

A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through....

Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to....

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

I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian....

The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuality....