Like a blood-red sky that warns the passerby, “There is a fire over there,” certain blazing looks often reveal passions that they serve merely to reflect. They are flames in the mirror.
Marcel Proust
Passions, Blazing Looks, Blood-red Sky, Flames Mirror, Subtle Warning, Revealed Fire
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one’s family traits become.” Marcel Proust
Age, Self, Family Traits, Obvious Characteristics, Generational Reflection, Personal Evolution
Marcel Proust Age, Self, Family Traits, Obvious Characteristics, Generational Reflection, Personal Evolution“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.” Marcel Proust
Youth, Garden, Hazardous Pilgrimage, Disappointment Success, Self Reflection, Nostalgic Memory
Marcel Proust Youth, Garden, Hazardous Pilgrimage, Disappointment Success, Self Reflection, Nostalgic Memory“But the absolute control over his facial muscles to which M. de Norpois had attained allowed him to listen without seeming to hear a word.” Marcel Proust
Control, Muscles, Listen, Word, Poised Silence, Subtle Observation
Marcel Proust Control, Muscles, Listen, Word, Poised Silence, Subtle Observation“We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.” Marcel Proust
Novelty, Perception, Sensibility, Change, Habit, Experiential Learning
Marcel Proust Novelty, Perception, Sensibility, Change, Habit, Experiential Learning“For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the ‘realities’ of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.” Marcel Proust
Art, Subjective Reality, Literature, Diplomats, Philosophy, Intellectual Game
Marcel Proust Art, Subjective Reality, Literature, Diplomats, Philosophy, Intellectual Game“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“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
Discovery, New Eyes, Changed Perspectives, Inner Journey, Transformative Vision, Perception Shift
Marcel Proust Discovery, New Eyes, Changed Perspectives, Inner Journey, Transformative Vision, Perception Shift“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.” Marcel Proust
Wisdom, Discovery, Personal Journey, Wilderness Effort, Self Realization, Hard-earned Growth
Marcel Proust Wisdom, Discovery, Personal Journey, Wilderness Effort, Self Realization, Hard-earned Growth“And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.” Marcel Proust
Faces, Study, Painter’s View, Artistic Measure, Beyond Survey, Interpretive Observation
Marcel Proust Faces, Study, Painter’s View, Artistic Measure, Beyond Survey, Interpretive Observation“Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.” Marcel Proust
Memory, Shop, Recent Exhibit, Changing Images, Past Reflection, Photographic Metaphor
Marcel Proust Memory, Shop, Recent Exhibit, Changing Images, Past Reflection, Photographic Metaphor“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.” Marcel Proust
Words, Meanings, Names, Minds, Temporal Shift, Personal Perception
Marcel Proust Words, Meanings, Names, Minds, Temporal Shift, Personal Perception“As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.” Marcel Proust
Future, Past, Grain Savour, Memory Details, Time Perception, Nostalgic Reflection
Marcel Proust Future, Past, Grain Savour, Memory Details, Time Perception, Nostalgic Reflection“What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.” Marcel Proust
Significance, Small, Love, Conceals, Emotional Weight, Hidden Details
Marcel Proust Significance, Small, Love, Conceals, Emotional Weight, Hidden Details“If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.” Marcel Proust
Elegance, Morality, Moral Purity, Ethical Commitment, Inner Grace, Personal Standard
Marcel Proust Elegance, Morality, Moral Purity, Ethical Commitment, Inner Grace, Personal Standard“Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid’s confinement.” Marcel Proust
Fruit Hidden, Kitchen Confinement, Natural Growth, Unseen Events, Life Cycle, Sudden Change
Marcel Proust Fruit Hidden, Kitchen Confinement, Natural Growth, Unseen Events, Life Cycle, Sudden Change“An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.” Marcel Proust
Hour, Vase, Time Essence, Scents Sounds, Moment Richness, Temporal Depth
Marcel Proust Hour, Vase, Time Essence, Scents Sounds, Moment Richness, Temporal Depth“Like a blood-red sky that warns the passerby, “There is a fire over there,” certain blazing looks often reveal passions that they serve merely to reflect. They are flames in the mirror.” Marcel Proust
Passions, Blazing Looks, Blood-red Sky, Flames Mirror, Subtle Warning, Revealed Fire
Marcel Proust Passions, Blazing Looks, Blood-red Sky, Flames Mirror, Subtle Warning, Revealed Fire“The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.” Marcel Proust
Creation, Discovery, Individual Experience, World View, Life Changes, Philosophy
Marcel Proust Creation, Discovery, Individual Experience, World View, Life Changes, Philosophy