Famous quotes containing the word proust:
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“And this disease that was Swanns love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swanns habits, to all his acts, to his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the mans jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)