Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being? I cannot tell. Now that I feel nothing, it has stopped, has perhaps gone down again into its darkness, from which who can say whether it will ever rise?
Marcel Proust
Memory, Consciousness, Depth, Moment, Emotional Magnetism, Lost Feelings
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“Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.” Marcel Proust
Reality, Unknown, First Step, Progressing Road, Existential Journey, Uncharted Path
Marcel Proust Reality, Unknown, First Step, Progressing Road, Existential Journey, Uncharted Path“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 moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.” Marcel Proust
Past, Memory, Future Motion, Temporal Flow, Nostalgic Transition, Time Perception
Marcel Proust Past, Memory, Future Motion, Temporal Flow, Nostalgic Transition, Time Perception“We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that’s the only happy solution we can see. We don’t think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don’t change, but by and by our wishes change.” Marcel Proust
Wishes, Change, Happy Solution, Evolving Desires, Unfulfilled Expectations, Perception Shift
Marcel Proust Wishes, Change, Happy Solution, Evolving Desires, Unfulfilled Expectations, Perception Shift“Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.” Marcel Proust
Bird, Solitude, Long Note, Unanimous Silence, Eternal Moment, Nature Symphony
Marcel Proust Bird, Solitude, Long Note, Unanimous Silence, Eternal Moment, Nature Symphony“One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.” Marcel Proust
Love, Understanding, Emotional Need, Reciprocal Affection, Human Desire, Relational Cycle
Marcel Proust Love, Understanding, Emotional Need, Reciprocal Affection, Human Desire, Relational Cycle“Il faudrait choisir de cesser de souffrir ou de cesser d’aimer.” Marcel Proust
Love, Suffering, Emotional Choice, Painful Love, Duality Of Feelings, Personal Struggle
Marcel Proust Love, Suffering, Emotional Choice, Painful Love, Duality Of Feelings, Personal Struggle“Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.” Marcel Proust
Woods, Black, Sky, Blue, Contrasting Nature, Quiet Beauty
Marcel Proust Woods, Black, Sky, Blue, Contrasting Nature, Quiet Beauty“Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.” Marcel Proust
Pleasures, Photographs, Inner Darkroom, Love Absence, Memory Development, Forbidden Reflections
Marcel Proust Pleasures, Photographs, Inner Darkroom, Love Absence, Memory Development, Forbidden Reflections“As by an electric current that gives us a shock, I have been shaken by my loves, I have lived them, I have felt them: never have I succeeded in seeing or thinking them.” Marcel Proust
Electric, Current, Loves Lived, Emotional Shock, Intense Feelings, Romantic Struggles
Marcel Proust Electric, Current, Loves Lived, Emotional Shock, Intense Feelings, Romantic Struggles“No man is a complete mystery except to himself.” Marcel Proust
Mystery, Man, Self Unknown, Hidden Depths, Personal Enigma, Inner Discovery
Marcel Proust Mystery, Man, Self Unknown, Hidden Depths, Personal Enigma, Inner Discovery“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“I should have been happy: I wasn’t.” Marcel Proust
Happy, Should, Wasn’t, Regret, Unfulfilled Desire, Emotional Void
Marcel Proust Happy, Should, Wasn’t, Regret, Unfulfilled Desire, Emotional Void“Ambition is more intoxicating than fame; desire makes all things blossom, possession wilts them; it is better to dream your life than to live it, even if living it means dreaming it, though both less mysteriously and less vividly, in a murky and sluggish dream, like the straggling dream in the feeble awareness of ruminant creatures.” Marcel Proust
Ambition, Fame, Dreams, Desire, Dreamlike Existence, Life Philosophy
Marcel Proust Ambition, Fame, Dreams, Desire, Dreamlike Existence, Life Philosophy“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust
Grateful, Happy, Gardeners, Souls, Charming People, Emotional Growth
Marcel Proust Grateful, Happy, Gardeners, Souls, Charming People, Emotional Growth“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“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.” Marcel Proust
Charm, Passing, Woman’s Beauty, Fleeting Allure, Time’s Impact, Transient Elegance
Marcel Proust Charm, Passing, Woman’s Beauty, Fleeting Allure, Time’s Impact, Transient Elegance“The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.” Marcel Proust
Anger, Vaccine, Emotional Control, Observing Others, Inner Peace, Behavioral Reflection
Marcel Proust Anger, Vaccine, Emotional Control, Observing Others, Inner Peace, Behavioral Reflection“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“Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.” Marcel Proust
People, Immateriality, Emotional Power, Poetic Connection, Life Expansion, Sensational Impact
Marcel Proust People, Immateriality, Emotional Power, Poetic Connection, Life Expansion, Sensational Impact