Remembrance of Things Past Quotes

“There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained

“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained

“You can make a new version of what you love only by renouncing it.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained

“Painful recollections are always of the dead. And the dead decompose rapidly, and there remains the beauty of nature, silence, the purity of air.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained