In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. Marcel Proust Read Quote
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. Marcel Proust Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. Marcel Proust Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. Marcel Proust Read Quote
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. Marcel Proust Read Quote
