Marcel Proust

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence... ↗

— Marcel Proust

#proust #violence

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#beauty

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life #life-and-living #life-lessons #opportunity #unexpected

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#writing #art

Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#humor

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life-lessons #life

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discourse #interpersonal-communication #love #philosophy #wisdom

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#more #really #says #separation #tender

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#imagination