Marcel Proust Quotes - Page 4
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
Le Temps Retrouve (Time Regained) (1926) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage
Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.50, Vintage
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.442, Wordsworth Editions
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.693, Wordsworth Editions
Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.138, Vintage
"J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett, in Life, Vol. 7, No. 9 (p. 58), October 24, 1949.
Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921). George Seldes, The Great Thoughts, quotes Ramon Guthrie: "This passage was meant to show what fools people who are capable of uttering such idiocies are... . It is slap-stick irony that Proust puts into the mouth of a fool (Boulbon) in order to show what a fool he was."
Marcel Proust (2003). “The prisoner and the fugitive”, ePenguin
Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.965, Jester House Publishing
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.339, Wordsworth Editions
Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.268, Modern Library
Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.257, Jester House Publishing
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Marcel Proust (2015). “Within A Budding Grove”, p.577, Booklassic
Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.55, Modern Library
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1178, Wordsworth Editions