Marcel Proust, Time Regained Quotes

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.