No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.
Marcel Proust
Palate, Extraordinary Sensation, Liquid Mix, Emotional Shudder, Physical Response, Transformative Moment
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.” Marcel Proust
Live, Alone, Chained, Body, Physical Bondage, Existential Unity
Marcel Proust Live, Alone, Chained, Body, Physical Bondage, Existential Unity“Dreams are not to be converted into reality, that we know; we would not form any, perhaps, were it not for desire, and it is useful to us to form them in order to see them fail and to be instructed by their failure.” Marcel Proust
Dreams, Reality, Desire Formation, Learning Failure, Imaginative Lessons, Inner Aspirations
Marcel Proust Dreams, Reality, Desire Formation, Learning Failure, Imaginative Lessons, Inner Aspirations“It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.” Marcel Proust
Passions, Others, Familiarity Learned, Personal Discovery, Emotional Insight, Shared Experiences
Marcel Proust Passions, Others, Familiarity Learned, Personal Discovery, Emotional Insight, Shared Experiences“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“The social leaders who refuse to allow politics into society are as foreseeing as the soldiers who refuse to allow politics to permeate the army. Society is like the sexual appetite; one does not know at what forms of perversion it may not arrive, once we have allowed our choice to be dictated by aesthetic considerations.” Marcel Proust
Leaders, Politics, Society, Appetite, Social Perversion, Aesthetic Control
Marcel Proust Leaders, Politics, Society, Appetite, Social Perversion, Aesthetic Control“I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me.” Marcel Proust
Love, Memory, Injury, Time, Emotional Confusion, Unspoken Actions
Marcel Proust Love, Memory, Injury, Time, Emotional Confusion, Unspoken Actions“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.” Marcel Proust
Immobility, Surroundings, Conceptions, Static Perceptions, Mental Constructs, Forced Beliefs
Marcel Proust Immobility, Surroundings, Conceptions, Static Perceptions, Mental Constructs, Forced Beliefs“An artist has no need to express his mind directly in his work for it to express the quality of that mind; it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.” Marcel Proust
Artist, Mind, Work Expression, God Denial, Creation Perfection, Indirect Praise
Marcel Proust Artist, Mind, Work Expression, God Denial, Creation Perfection, Indirect Praise“My body, still too heavy with sleep to move.” Marcel Proust
Body, Sleep, Heavy State, Rested Stagnation, Morning Fatigue, Physical Lethargy
Marcel Proust Body, Sleep, Heavy State, Rested Stagnation, Morning Fatigue, Physical Lethargy“The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.” Marcel Proust
Stars, Society, Appearing Tired, Hemisphere Migration, Social Fame, Solitary Retreat
Marcel Proust Stars, Society, Appearing Tired, Hemisphere Migration, Social Fame, Solitary Retreat“When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.” Marcel Proust
Music, Sadness, Emotional Comfort, Inner Solace, Personal Escape, Listening Peace
Marcel Proust Music, Sadness, Emotional Comfort, Inner Solace, Personal Escape, Listening Peace“A ‘real’ person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift.” Marcel Proust
Real Person, Sympathize, Perceptible Opaque, Emotional Depth, Sensory Weight, Relationship Barrier
Marcel Proust Real Person, Sympathize, Perceptible Opaque, Emotional Depth, Sensory Weight, Relationship Barrier“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.” Marcel Proust
Intelligent, People, Suffer, Ills, Mental Strain, Overthinking Pain
Marcel Proust Intelligent, People, Suffer, Ills, Mental Strain, Overthinking Pain“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Marcel Proust
Weather, Change, Recreate World, Personal Renewal, Environmental Influence, Fresh Perspectives
Marcel Proust Weather, Change, Recreate World, Personal Renewal, Environmental Influence, Fresh Perspectives“As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.” Marcel Proust
Madness, Stupidity, Protective Maladies, Psychological Balance, Mental Irony, Existential Fragility
Marcel Proust Madness, Stupidity, Protective Maladies, Psychological Balance, Mental Irony, Existential Fragility“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“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“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“A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.” Marcel Proust
Picture, Beauty, Independent Art, Subjective Appeal, Artistic Value, Visual Interpretation
Marcel Proust Picture, Beauty, Independent Art, Subjective Appeal, Artistic Value, Visual Interpretation“There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.” Marcel Proust
Action, Regret, Adolescence, Lost Spontaneity, Social Conformity, Youthful Lessons
Marcel Proust Action, Regret, Adolescence, Lost Spontaneity, Social Conformity, Youthful Lessons