Quotes by Proust, Marcel

Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our >>

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on >>

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: the >>

Quotations about Paradox

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see >>

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only >>

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to sco >>

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Proust, Marcel