Quotes Tagged With :proust

... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't....

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

t smells in. Let the smell of hot tarmac in the summer remind you of a meal you ate the first time you....

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

...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this,....

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or....

He had so long since ceased to direct his life toward any ideal goal, and had confined himself to the....

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

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to....

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.