The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
Habit, Fixity, Direct Proportion, Habit Formation, Behavioral Patterns, Routine Absurdity
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“And yet one did not find in the speech of Bergotte a certain luminosity which in his books, as in those of some other writers, often modified in the written phrase the appearance of its words. This was doubtless because that light issues from so profound a depth that its rays do not penetrate to our spoken words in the hours in which, thrown open to others by the act of conversation, we are to a certain extent closed against ourselves.” Marcel Proust
Luminosity, Speech, Profound Depth, Conversational Barrier, Literary Light, Spoken Words
Marcel Proust Luminosity, Speech, Profound Depth, Conversational Barrier, Literary Light, Spoken Words“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“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
Marcel Proust Palate, Extraordinary Sensation, Liquid Mix, Emotional Shudder, Physical Response, Transformative Moment“La possession de ce qu’on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l’amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.” Marcel Proust
Possessing, Joy, Love Greater, True Happiness, Emotional Fulfillment, Cherished Affection
Marcel Proust Possessing, Joy, Love Greater, True Happiness, Emotional Fulfillment, Cherished Affection“After the suicide of my thoughts, they admired my intelligence; they doted on my mind. My parched imagination, my dried-up sensitivity were enough for the people who were the thirstiest for an intellectual life – their thirst being as artificial and mendacious as the source from which they believed they were quenching it!” Marcel Proust
Thoughts, Intelligence, Imagination, Intellectual Thirst, False Appreciation, Mental Fatigue
Marcel Proust Thoughts, Intelligence, Imagination, Intellectual Thirst, False Appreciation, Mental Fatigue“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“He sat there silent, watching their love expire.” Marcel Proust
Silent, Love, Expire, Watching, Quiet Ending, Fading Affection
Marcel Proust Silent, Love, Expire, Watching, Quiet Ending, Fading Affection“A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.” Marcel Proust
Work, Meaning, Spectator Impact, Self-Expression, Artistry Clarity, Visual Imposition
Marcel Proust Work, Meaning, Spectator Impact, Self-Expression, Artistry Clarity, Visual Imposition“Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.” Marcel Proust
Masterpieces, Flotsam, Minds, Great, Artistic Survival, Creative Chaos
Marcel Proust Masterpieces, Flotsam, Minds, Great, Artistic Survival, Creative Chaos“A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, without knowing if anything of the being, whose name it was, survives in these pages.” Marcel Proust
Book, Cemetery, Effaced Names, Remembered Identity, Forgotten Stories, Literary Immortality
Marcel Proust Book, Cemetery, Effaced Names, Remembered Identity, Forgotten Stories, Literary Immortality“A fashionable milieu is one in which each person’s opinion is made up of everyone else’s opinions. Does each opinion run counter to everyone else’s? Then it is a literary milieu.” Marcel Proust
Fashionable, Milieu, Opinions Counter, Literary Circles, Social Dynamics, Collective Thought
Marcel Proust Fashionable, Milieu, Opinions Counter, Literary Circles, Social Dynamics, Collective Thought“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“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“But what revealed to me all of a sudden the Princess’s love was a trifling incident upon which I shall not dwell here, for it forms part of quite another story, in which M. de Charlus allowed a Queen to die rather than miss an appointment with the hairdresser who was to singe his hair for the benefit of an omnibus conductor who filled him with alarm.” Marcel Proust
Love, Trifling Incident, Hidden Affections, Dramatic Irony, Social Eccentricities, Story Intrigue
Marcel Proust Love, Trifling Incident, Hidden Affections, Dramatic Irony, Social Eccentricities, Story Intrigue“That translucent alabaster of our memories.” Marcel Proust
Alabaster, Memories, Translucent, Our, Fragile Nostalgia, Gentle Reflection
Marcel Proust Alabaster, Memories, Translucent, Our, Fragile Nostalgia, Gentle Reflection“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“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“The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.” Marcel Proust
Sensitiveness, Egotism, Neurotic Traits, Self-Reflection, Emotional Bias, Observed Suffering
Marcel Proust Sensitiveness, Egotism, Neurotic Traits, Self-Reflection, Emotional Bias, Observed Suffering