I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.
Marcel ProustAn impression of love is out of proportion to the other impressions of life, but when it is lost in their midst we are incapable of appreciating it.
Marcel ProustTags: love
L'habitude de penser empêche parfois d'éprouver le réel, immunise contre lui, le fait paraître de la pensée encore.
Marcel ProustIl n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.
Marcel ProustIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel ProustTags: death
Ainsi notre cœur change, dans la vie, et c’est la pire douleur; mais nous ne la connaissons que dans la lecture, en imagination: dans la réalité il change, comme certains phénomènes de la nature se produisent, assez lentement pour que, si nous pouvons constater successivement chacun de ses états différents, en revanche la sensation même du changement nous soit épargnée.
Trans. The heart changes, and it is our worst sorrow; but we know it only through reading, through our imagination: in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
She was "a woman of uncertain age.
Marcel ProustThere are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.
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