“ She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had s… Marcel Proust
“ Es mejor soñar una vida que vivirla, aunque vivirla siga siendo soñarla, pero menos misteriosamente y con menos claridad a la vez, con un sueño oscuro y pesado, similar al sueño disperso en la débil c… Marcel Proust
“ No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure h… Marcel Proust
“ The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. Marcel Proust
“ But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a li… Marcel Proust
“ Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster than usual, and his shoulders swayed backwards and forwards, right and left, in the most… Marcel Proust
“ I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self… Marcel Proust
“ Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were conventionally applied, but only as we give the names of Mars, Venus,… Marcel Proust
“ We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in sleepless nights, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, a… Marcel Proust
“ Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Marcel Proust
“ One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. Marcel Proust
“ Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. Marcel Proust
“ Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and 'bounders' that a man of fashion is afraid of fi… Marcel Proust
“ People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked. Marcel Proust
“ Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. Marcel Proust
“ From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays on the balcony the pigeons in the Champs-Elysées; from the muffling of sounds… Marcel Proust
