Quotes about Proust

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What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence. — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
We don't receive wisdom — we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life — it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy — they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradua — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other — Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove, Part 2
He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounded him all the more c — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. — Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
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
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to th — Marcel Proust
We would like to go and see the field that Millet…shows us in his Springtime, we would like Claude Monet to take us to G — Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.'That's where everything starts', he'd say. 'Bo — Céleste Albaret, Monsieur Proust
He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.That's where everything starts, he'd say. Both — Céleste Albaret, Monsieur Proust
He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood."That's where everything starts," he'd say. "Bo — Céleste Albaret, Monsieur Proust
Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the valu — Erik Pevernagie
Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a pri — Michael Foley, Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, — Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a sto — Lev Grossman
This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a sw — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way