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Proust Quotes: "My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.



Proust Quotes: "If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.




Proust Quotes: "Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising."

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.



Proust Quotes: "We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection."

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.




Proust Quotes: "The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce."

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.



Proust Quotes: "Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water."

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.



Proust Quotes: "I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart."

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.




Proust Quotes: "All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust."

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.



Proust Quotes: "After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.



Proust Quotes: "Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else."

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.



Proust Quotes: "Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting."

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.



Proust Quotes: "Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.




Proust Quotes: "A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness."

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.



Proust Quotes: "In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?"

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?



Proust Quotes: "When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes."

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.



Proust Quotes: "A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury."

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.



Proust Quotes: "A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism."

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.



Proust Quotes: "Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?"

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?



Proust Quotes: "Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them."

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.



Proust Quotes: "I'm sure Proust was a big bore."

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.



Proust Quotes: "I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place."

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.



Proust Quotes: "I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust."

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.



Proust Quotes: "Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles."

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.



Proust Quotes: "Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb."

Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.



Proust Quotes: "Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm."

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.



Proust Quotes: "Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth."

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.



Proust Quotes: "You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece."

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.



Proust Quotes: "You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust."

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.



Proust Quotes: "Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost."

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.



Proust Quotes: "I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson."

I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad" Charley Davidson.



Proust Quotes: "It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author."

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.



Proust Quotes: "If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust."

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.



Proust Quotes: "It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes."

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.



Proust Quotes: "What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.





Proust Quotes: "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy"

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy



Proust Quotes: "Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.



Proust Quotes: "He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.'That's where everything starts', he'd say. 'Both heaven and hell."

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.'That's where everything starts', he'd say. 'Both heaven and hell.



Proust Quotes: "He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.That's where everything starts, he'd say. Both heaven and hell."

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.That's where everything starts, he'd say. Both heaven and hell.



Proust Quotes: "He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood."That's where everything starts, " he'd say. "Both heaven and hell."

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood."That's where everything starts, " he'd say. "Both heaven and hell.



Proust Quotes: "Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles."

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.



Proust Quotes: "One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod."

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.



Proust Quotes: "[They] can’t….understand you: you’re such an exceptional person. That’s what I liked about you from the start"

[They] can’t….understand you: you’re such an exceptional person. That’s what I liked about you from the start



Proust Quotes: "She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you"

She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you




Proust Quotes: "I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe."

I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.



Proust Quotes: "In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss"

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss



Proust Quotes: "Because happiness alone is good for the body"

Because happiness alone is good for the body