Marcel Proust Quotes about Literature

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Marcel Proust

Love, Reality, Literature

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

Religion, Literature, World

Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

Time, Lying, Literature

Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Marcel Proust

Love, Literature, Torture

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Marcel Proust

Luxury, Trying, Literature

Marcel Proust, Philip Kolb (1983). “Marcel Proust, selected letters, 1880-1903”, HarperCollins

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

People, Dying, Literature

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

Marcel Proust

Practice, Vices, Literature

Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Marcel Proust

Love, Quality, Literature

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Marcel Proust

Teamwork, Literature, World

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.837, Wordsworth Editions

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

Marcel Proust

Different, Literature, Opinion

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”