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
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More Marcel Proust Quotes
“The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person.” Marcel Proust
Error, Relations, Heart, Love, Emotional Bias, Personal Misjudgment
Marcel Proust Error, Relations, Heart, Love, Emotional Bias, Personal Misjudgment“Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of everything that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.” Marcel Proust
Jealousy, Discovery, Egotistical Passion, Emotional Gluttony, Toxic Vitality, Romantic Irony
Marcel Proust Jealousy, Discovery, Egotistical Passion, Emotional Gluttony, Toxic Vitality, Romantic Irony“Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.” Marcel Proust
Gardening, Flowers, Dreams, Nightmares, Creative Work, Nature’s Art
Marcel Proust Gardening, Flowers, Dreams, Nightmares, Creative Work, Nature’s Art“In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but youth was the only time in which we learned anything.” Marcel Proust
Youth, Practicality, Learning Time, Society Conformity, Aging, Reflection
Marcel Proust Youth, Practicality, Learning Time, Society Conformity, Aging, Reflection“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.” Marcel Proust
Affection, Dying, Other People, Faint Connection, Mortal Reflection, Emotional Distance
Marcel Proust Affection, Dying, Other People, Faint Connection, Mortal Reflection, Emotional Distance“And in the same way, again, are not the thoughts of men and women in the agony of death often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, internal, intestinal aspect, towards that ‘seamy side’ of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, a side which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?” Marcel Proust
Thoughts, Death, Painful, Burden, Crushing Reality, Final Agony
Marcel Proust Thoughts, Death, Painful, Burden, Crushing Reality, Final Agony“There are optical illusions in time as well as space.” Marcel Proust
Optical Illusion, Time, Space, Perception, Reality, Mysteries
Marcel Proust Optical Illusion, Time, Space, Perception, Reality, Mysteries“A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.” Marcel Proust
Letters, Phrase, Literary Merit, Author Estimate, Reading Insight, Scholarly Judgment
Marcel Proust Letters, Phrase, Literary Merit, Author Estimate, Reading Insight, Scholarly Judgment“It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him.” Marcel Proust
Father, Sentimentality, Emotional Strain, Parental Bond, Unspoken Gratitude, Familial Distance
Marcel Proust Father, Sentimentality, Emotional Strain, Parental Bond, Unspoken Gratitude, Familial Distance“Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.” Marcel Proust
Reader, Book, Optical Instrument, Inner Discovery, Written Reflection, Personal Insight
Marcel Proust Reader, Book, Optical Instrument, Inner Discovery, Written Reflection, Personal Insight“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“Truth is a point of view about things.” Marcel Proust
Truth View, Subjective Reality, Perspective Shift, Emotional Perception, Philosophical Inquiry, Belief Structure
Marcel Proust Truth View, Subjective Reality, Perspective Shift, Emotional Perception, Philosophical Inquiry, Belief Structure“The disgust of distinguished people for snobs who want to force themselves upon them, the virile man has for the invert, the woman for every man who is too much in love with her.” Marcel Proust
Disgust, Distinction, Forced Attention, Social Dynamics, Emotional Reactions, Personal Boundaries
Marcel Proust Disgust, Distinction, Forced Attention, Social Dynamics, Emotional Reactions, Personal Boundaries“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“What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?” Marcel Proust
Silence, Barrier, Communication, Human Connection, Isolation, Reflection
Marcel Proust Silence, Barrier, Communication, Human Connection, Isolation, Reflection“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.” Marcel Proust
Memory, Sensory Connection, Nostalgia, Endurance, Fragile Persistence, Faithful Souls
Marcel Proust Memory, Sensory Connection, Nostalgia, Endurance, Fragile Persistence, Faithful Souls“Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.” Marcel Proust
Love, Malady, Rheumatism, Respite, Emotional Pain, Fleeting Relief
Marcel Proust Love, Malady, Rheumatism, Respite, Emotional Pain, Fleeting Relief“Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.” Marcel Proust
Gallardon, Ambitions, Social Sacrifice, Private Pleasure, Disagreeable Words, Human Irony
Marcel Proust Gallardon, Ambitions, Social Sacrifice, Private Pleasure, Disagreeable Words, Human Irony“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.” Marcel Proust
Art, Multiplied Worlds, Original Artists, Creative Perspectives, Expanded View, Artistic Impact
Marcel Proust Art, Multiplied Worlds, Original Artists, Creative Perspectives, Expanded View, Artistic Impact“The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things. The door-handle of my room, which was different to me from all the other doorhandles in the world, inasmuch as it seemed to open of its own accord and without my having to turn it, so unconscious had its manipulation become; lo and behold, it was now an astral body for Golo.” Marcel Proust
Custom, Melancholy, Room, Door, Astral Body, Habitual Awareness
Marcel Proust Custom, Melancholy, Room, Door, Astral Body, Habitual Awareness