Quotes Tagged With :proust

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

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

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might....

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

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