Quotes by Marcel Proust, Time Regained

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For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the read — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because they were not, as I — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being sl — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. F — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere fragmentary reflex — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the slow death of my — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them. — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Ideas are substitutes for sorrows... — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options t — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect. — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
But sometimes it is just when everything seems to be lost that we experience a presentiment that may save us; one has kn — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
The real propaganda is what—if we are genuinely a living member of a nation—we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope — Marcel Proust, Time Regained
A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes — Marcel Proust, Time Regained