Marcel Proust Quotes about Pleasure

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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust

Beauty, Promise, Pleasure

Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

Marcel Proust

Men, Truth Is, Pleasure

Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Guermantes way. Cities of the plain”, Vintage

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

Marcel Proust

Book, Childhood, Pleasure

Marcel Proust (1948). “Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings”

Marcel Proust Quotes about Pleasure

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