But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann’s heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.
Marcel Proust
Love, Suspicion, Heart, Seeds, Emotional Conflict, Mixed Feelings
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“The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.” Marcel Proust
Writer, Duty, Interpretation, Artistic Role, Literature, Purpose
Marcel Proust Writer, Duty, Interpretation, Artistic Role, Literature, Purpose“I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...” Marcel Proust
Storms, Coasts, Raging Violence, Nature’s Fury, Intense Desire, Raw Power
Marcel Proust Storms, Coasts, Raging Violence, Nature’s Fury, Intense Desire, Raw Power“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” Marcel Proust
Dreaming, Danger, Constant Vision, Imaginative Cure, Mental Freedom, Endless Ambition
Marcel Proust Dreaming, Danger, Constant Vision, Imaginative Cure, Mental Freedom, Endless Ambition“It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man’s deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit’s evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...” Marcel Proust
Attitude, Action, Hidden Character, Fragmented Recollection, Perception Reality, Sense Hallucination
Marcel Proust Attitude, Action, Hidden Character, Fragmented Recollection, Perception Reality, Sense Hallucination“Things outside seemed also fixed in mute expectation, so as not to disturb the moonlight which, duplicating each of them and throwing it back by the extension, forwards, of a shadow denser and more concrete than its substance, had made the whole landscape seem at once thinner and longer, like a map which, after being folded up, is spread out upon the ground.” Marcel Proust
Moonlight, Landscape, Shadow, Map, Poetic Vision, Subtle Details
Marcel Proust Moonlight, Landscape, Shadow, Map, Poetic Vision, Subtle Details“A little tap on the window pane, as though something had struck it, followed by a plentiful light falling sound, as of grains of sand being sprinkled from a window overhead, gradually spreading, intensifying, acquiring a regular rhythm, becoming fluid, sonorous, musical, immeasurable, universal: it was the rain.” Marcel Proust
Rain, Window, Musical Rhythm, Universal Sound, Natural Beauty, Emotional Connection
Marcel Proust Rain, Window, Musical Rhythm, Universal Sound, Natural Beauty, Emotional Connection“It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tedium of having to rejoin her presently, when I went home, was a trifling matter compared with the anxiety that I should have felt if the separation had occurred when I still had a doubt about her and before I had had time to grow indifferent to her.” Marcel Proust
Temptation, Separation, Emotional Tedium, Love Anxiety, Relationship Doubts, Growing Indifference
Marcel Proust Temptation, Separation, Emotional Tedium, Love Anxiety, Relationship Doubts, Growing Indifference“Her memory was a burning pillow which she kept turning and turning.” Marcel Proust
Memory, Burning, Pillow, Turning, Emotional Restlessness, Haunting Thoughts
Marcel Proust Memory, Burning, Pillow, Turning, Emotional Restlessness, Haunting Thoughts“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.” Marcel Proust
Imagination, Love, Emotional Creation, Personal Perception, Romantic Illusion, Mental Projection
Marcel Proust Imagination, Love, Emotional Creation, Personal Perception, Romantic Illusion, Mental Projection“Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.” Marcel Proust
Imagination, Belief, Create Atmosphere, Unique Perception, Mental Differentiation, Emotional Insight
Marcel Proust Imagination, Belief, Create Atmosphere, Unique Perception, Mental Differentiation, Emotional Insight“She lived her life, but I may have been the only one to dream it.” Marcel Proust
Life, Dream, Personal Vision, Solitary Perception, Lived Reality, Individual Understanding
Marcel Proust Life, Dream, Personal Vision, Solitary Perception, Lived Reality, Individual Understanding“The whole art of living is to use the people who make us suffer simply as steps enabling us to obtain access to their divine form and thus joyfully to people our lives with divinities.” Marcel Proust
Art, Living, Suffering Steps, Divine Form, Joyful Connections, Transcendent Growth
Marcel Proust Art, Living, Suffering Steps, Divine Form, Joyful Connections, Transcendent Growth“I do find it absurd that a man of his intelligence should suffer over a person of that sort, who isn’t even interesting – because they say she’s an idiot,” she added with the wisdom of people not in love who believe a man of sense should be unhappy only over a person who is worth it; which is rather like being surprised that anyone should condescend to suffer from cholera because of so small a creature as the comma bacillus.” Marcel Proust
Absurd, Suffer, Intelligence, Worth, Unworthy Affliction, Misplaced Grief
Marcel Proust Absurd, Suffer, Intelligence, Worth, Unworthy Affliction, Misplaced Grief“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” Marcel Proust
Childhood, Books, Favorite Days, Literary Joy, Nostalgic Reading, Immersive Worlds
Marcel Proust Childhood, Books, Favorite Days, Literary Joy, Nostalgic Reading, Immersive Worlds“To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the look in their eyes seems to warn us that they are about to take flight. The proof of this beauty itself, that wings add is that often, for us, the same person is alternately winged and wingless.” Marcel Proust
Beings, Wings, Eyes, Flight, Fleeting Beauty, Duality Nature
Marcel Proust Beings, Wings, Eyes, Flight, Fleeting Beauty, Duality Nature“The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.” Marcel Proust
Imagination, Introspection, Mind Inertia, Easy Slope, Mental Effort, Creative Escape
Marcel Proust Imagination, Introspection, Mind Inertia, Easy Slope, Mental Effort, Creative Escape“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is not clear what dictates the choice nor why, among the millions of human beings we might be, it is the being we were the day before that we unerringly grasp.” Marcel Proust
Consciousness, Identity, Human Choice, Previous Self, Mental Continuity, Unseen Dictation
Marcel Proust Consciousness, Identity, Human Choice, Previous Self, Mental Continuity, Unseen Dictation“He stood gazing at her; traces of the old fresco were apparent in her face and limbs, and these he tried incessantly, afterwards, to recapture, both when he was with Odette, and when he was only thinking of her in her absence; and, albeit his admiration for the Florentine masterpiece was probably based upon his discovery that it had been reproduced in her, the similarity enhanced her beauty also, and rendered her more precious in his sight.” Marcel Proust
Admiration, Beauty, Florentine Masterpiece, Old Fresco, Precious Memory, Artistic Vision
Marcel Proust Admiration, Beauty, Florentine Masterpiece, Old Fresco, Precious Memory, Artistic Vision“For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.” Marcel Proust
Death, Existence, Simplification Gratitude, Obligatory Visits, Life Impact, Loss Perspective
Marcel Proust Death, Existence, Simplification Gratitude, Obligatory Visits, Life Impact, Loss Perspective“For the most dangerous of all forms of concealment is that of the crime itself in the mind of the guilty party. His permanent consciousness of it prevents him from imagining how generally it is unknown, how readily a complete lie would be accepted, and on the other hand from realising at what degree of truth other people will detect, in words which he believes to be innocent, a confession.” Marcel Proust
Concealment, Guilt, Dangerous Crime, Consciousness Trap, Hidden Truth, Mental Confession
Marcel Proust Concealment, Guilt, Dangerous Crime, Consciousness Trap, Hidden Truth, Mental Confession