1,085 Quotes by Marcel Proust

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.

Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account.

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.