Quotes by Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

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We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say so we represent that hour to ourselves as situa — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuality is peculiar to th — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmospher — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She mad — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
She was not yet dead. But I was already alone. — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind. — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Quite half of the human race was in tears. — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to th — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime. — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Occasionally I looked up towards some vast old apartment with its shutters still open and where amphibious men and women — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a different realm — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, but unlike the Courvo — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to tur — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour of the gi — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company. — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way