The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. Marcel Proust Read Quote
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. Marcel Proust Read Quote
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. Marcel Proust Read Quote
