Marcel Proust, In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower Quotes
With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed, " the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.
...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.
It is a mistake, " Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.
M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.
...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.
Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?