John Dudding > John's Quotes

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
― Marcel Proust

“The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Each of us is indeed alone.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“in all countries fools outnumber the rest;”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent every person is to us like Janus, presenting to us the face that we like if that person leaves us, the repellent face if we know him or her to be perpetually at our disposal.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive