1,085 Quotes by Marcel Proust

Les plats se lisent et les livres se mangent.

En cuanto somos desdichados, nos volvemos morales.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover.

I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person;.

There is a beauty in being surrounded by the foreign – seeing things from a new perspective, with new eyes.

They say that Death embellishes its victims and exaggerates their virtues, but in general it is actually life that wronged them. Death, that pious and irreproachable witness, teaches us, in both truth and charity, that in each man there is usually more good than evil.

The social leaders who refuse to allow politics into society are as foreseeing as the soldiers who refuse to allow politics to permeate the army. Society is like the sexual appetite; one does not know at what forms of perversion it may not arrive, once we have allowed our choice to be dictated by aesthetic considerations.

Depth of character, or a melancholy expression on a woman’s face would freeze his senses, which would, however, immediately melt at the sight of healthy, abundant, rosy human flesh.

But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann’s heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.