The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing. Marcel Proust More Quotes by Marcel Proust More Quotes From Marcel Proust Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning. Marcel Proust dear-friendthreemorning But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. Marcel Proust knowinglyingreality Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are. Marcel Proust womendaughterattitude We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own. Marcel Proust viewsmaypeople A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it. Marcel Proust dependsdoe 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. Marcel Proust bearableindulge-inreality Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. Marcel Proust womenimaginationmen All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. Marcel Proust entrepreneurluckdecision We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. Marcel Proust differentbodykingdoms There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes. Marcel Proust infinite-timetiltsinging A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart. Marcel Proust typeoppositesheart I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence. Marcel Proust stormcoastviolence People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. Marcel Proust unhappypeoplethinking Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust doctorspainkindness Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision. Marcel Proust stylevisiontechnique Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. Marcel Proust flotsamgreat-mindsmind I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire. Marcel Proust orchidsglowingfire Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them. Marcel Proust surroundconceptionconviction The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. Marcel Proust prejudicefashiongrace Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. Marcel Proust formworldart
