55 Quotes About Proust

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me.

Another book out of Mexico which interests me is Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society. Do you know it?' I inquired.'Yes, and I too have a high opinion of the thesis of the book. Illich is a man with one good idea. I see you have here Deleuze's Proust and Signs. What do you think of it?''I consider it the best book about Proust I have ever read.

speaking of Proust: “The fact is he didn’t care much for children – which is strange when you think about how he had an almost religious feeling for his own childhood. ‘I like looking at children’, he used to say, ‘but not spending time with them

Anzi, da un punto di vista puramente realistico, i paesi che noi desideriamo tengono in ogni istante assai più posto nella nostra esistenza vera, dei paesi dove abitiamo in realtà.

...A superficial reader of Proust's work- rather a contradiction in terms since a superficial reader will get so bored, so engulfed in his own yawns, that he will never finish the book- [the] inexperienced reader, let us say... will probably conclude that the main action of the book is a series of parties; for example, a dinner occupies a hundred and fifty pages, a soirée half a volume.

Quick! what’s the Proust line? – that we’re attracted to those people who have qualities we hate in ourselves?

Als je Proust gelezen hebt, is je leven veranderd.

Perimate la Proust sunt acele fleacuri umflate de un delir prolix, damfurile stilului simbolist, aglomerarea de efecte, saturaţia poetică. E ca şi cum un Saint-Simon ar fi suferit influenţa Preţioaselor. Nimeni nu l-ar mai citi în ziua de azi.