42 Quotes About Marcel-proust

It is not the contented or the glowing who have left many of the profound testimonies of what it means to be alive. It seems that such knowledge has usually been the privileged preserve of, and the only blessing granted to, the violently miserable.

I wrote my first novel, McFarlane Boils The Sea, under the influence of Kelman and Proust, which is like drinking a cocktail of Bowmore and Châteauneuf du Pape.(James Meek in interview with TMO)

I veri paradisi sono i paradisi che abbiamo perduto.

When you come to live with a woman, you will soon cease to see anything of what made you love; though it is true that the two sundered elements can be reunited by jealousy.

When you come to live with a woman, you will soon cease to see anything of what made you love her; though it is true that the two sundered elements can be reunited by jealousy.

A timeless lecture changes one thought into another letter.

...the rule among the human race – a rule that naturally admits of exceptions – is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted, and that the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that gentleness which the vulgar herd mistakes for weakness.

إن الكتب الجميلة مكتوبة بنوع من اللسان الأجنبي يضع كل واحد منا تحت كل كلمة معنىً، أو على الأقل صورة غالباً ما تؤدي معنى معكوساً. لكن المعاني المعكوسة تكون كلها جميلة حينما ترد في الكتب الجميلة.

Sentimos en un mundo, pensamos y nombramos en otro