Marcel Proust Literature Quotations

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

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.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

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