Marcel Proust

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

آموخت که آدم به غیبت عادت می­کند و این عادت به نبودن عزیزان از نبودنشان ناگوارتر است. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#immigration #lost #missing-someone #death

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life #death

The real art of discovery is not in finding new land, but in seeing with new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#art

His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#nature

in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them ↗

— Marcel Proust

#suffering #men

We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#music #paris #wagner #music

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#inspirational

...because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive politeness. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#proust #death

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

— Marcel Proust

#different kinds #forsake #kinds #many #others