That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Marcel Proust
Alabaster, Memories, Translucent, Our, Fragile Nostalgia, Gentle Reflection
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano.” Marcel Proust
Piano, Exasperation, Inanimate Object, Music Humor, Irony, Frustration
Marcel Proust Piano, Exasperation, Inanimate Object, Music Humor, Irony, Frustration“Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.” Marcel Proust
Lives, Memories, Wandering Path, Unchanging Past, Nostalgic Anchor, Temporal Stability
Marcel Proust Lives, Memories, Wandering Path, Unchanging Past, Nostalgic Anchor, Temporal Stability“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.” Marcel Proust
Charm, Passing Woman, Speed Relation, Fleeting Beauty, Temporal Allure, Brief Fascination
Marcel Proust Charm, Passing Woman, Speed Relation, Fleeting Beauty, Temporal Allure, Brief Fascination“But in compensation for what our imagination leaves us wanting and we give ourselves so much unnecessary trouble in trying to find, life does give us something which we were very far from imagining.” Marcel Proust
Life, Imagination, Trouble, Wanting, Unexpected Rewards, Reality’s Gifts
Marcel Proust Life, Imagination, Trouble, Wanting, Unexpected Rewards, Reality’s Gifts“The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.” Marcel Proust
Lives, Noble, Different Beginnings, Struggle Victory, Admired Influences, Personal Triumph
Marcel Proust Lives, Noble, Different Beginnings, Struggle Victory, Admired Influences, Personal Triumph“Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.” Marcel Proust
Life, Miracle, Awareness, Present Moment, Existential Mindset, Immediate Joy
Marcel Proust Life, Miracle, Awareness, Present Moment, Existential Mindset, Immediate Joy“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 is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.” Marcel Proust
Other People’s Tragedy, Perishable Mind, Emotional Perception, Shifting Views, Self Reflection, External Influence
Marcel Proust Other People’s Tragedy, Perishable Mind, Emotional Perception, Shifting Views, Self Reflection, External Influence“Under each station of the real, another glimmers.” Marcel Proust
Reality, Layers, Hidden Glimmer, Dual Perception, Subtle Truth, Overlapping Worlds
Marcel Proust Reality, Layers, Hidden Glimmer, Dual Perception, Subtle Truth, Overlapping Worlds“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.” Marcel Proust
Sky, Life, Patch Above, Open Perspective, Hopeful Vision, Uplifting Advice
Marcel Proust Sky, Life, Patch Above, Open Perspective, Hopeful Vision, Uplifting Advice“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted – atrocious.” Marcel Proust
Love, Suffering, Joy Neutralizes, Emotional Delay, Heartache Reality, Lingering Pain
Marcel Proust Love, Suffering, Joy Neutralizes, Emotional Delay, Heartache Reality, Lingering Pain“Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.” Marcel Proust
Aristocracy, Fashion, Court, Prince, Social Status, Unexpected Power
Marcel Proust Aristocracy, Fashion, Court, Prince, Social Status, Unexpected Power“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“Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.” Marcel Proust
Life, Magic, Reality, Existence, Imaginative Realities, Surreal Moments
Marcel Proust Life, Magic, Reality, Existence, Imaginative Realities, Surreal Moments“We see things but we don’t see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.” Marcel Proust
Perception, Mind Flow, Visual Blurring, Overlapping Thoughts, Subtle Vision, Hidden Details
Marcel Proust Perception, Mind Flow, Visual Blurring, Overlapping Thoughts, Subtle Vision, Hidden Details“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” Marcel Proust
Freedom, Science, Ask, Think, Intellectual Liberty, Unstoppable Progress
Marcel Proust Freedom, Science, Ask, Think, Intellectual Liberty, Unstoppable Progress“All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable.” Marcel Proust
Writers, Sentences, Beauty, Woman, Unseen Elegance, Unpredictable Art
Marcel Proust Writers, Sentences, Beauty, Woman, Unseen Elegance, Unpredictable Art“When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.” Marcel Proust
Smell, Taste, Distant Past, Sensory Memory, Nostalgic Fragments, Emotional Triggers
Marcel Proust Smell, Taste, Distant Past, Sensory Memory, Nostalgic Fragments, Emotional Triggers