Quotes Tagged With :proust

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

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

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

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

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative,....

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

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....