Marcel Proust

The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the read more

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in read more

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality read more

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.