#marcel proust

[auntieblues]

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust

[sicknessinmotion]

girlhood, love, godhood

kristin chang — @/onlywreckage on twitter — marcel proust — euripides — angels in america, dir. tony kushner.

[rosepompadour]

The two of them were linked in some mysterious storybook way.

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (1913)

[petaltexturedskies]

Marcel Proust, from "Remembrance of Things Past" in The Complete Works

[the-night-picture-collector]

"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."

Marcel Proust

[tygerland]

Henri Matisse The Piano Lesson. 1916. Oil on canvas: 245 × 212 cm (96 × 83 in).

[nousrose]

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust

[artlif3]

Es ist selten, dass man im Guten auseinandergeht. Denn wenn man im Guten ist, geht man nicht auseinander.

[aquiyaceunpajaro]

I love decorating tiny, useless things.

[scenephile]

You don't get better suffering than that.

[philosophors]

“Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

— Marcel Proust

[saireyn]

"Çok derinden hissedilen duygular hakkında konuşamaz zaten insan, çünkü onları kendi benliğinden ayıramaz…"

Kalan Son Güzel Kağıdım, Marcel Proust Bu ay hangi kitabı okuyorsunuz?

[somehow---here]

È mai possibile dimenticare qualcuno che si ama da sempre?

Marcel Proust, "Alla ricerca del tempo perduto" , volume primo, All'ombra delle fanciulle in fiore; parte prima: Intorno a Madame Swann

[petaltexturedskies]

Marcel Proust, from The Complete Works; The Captive - La Prisonnière; Vol. V of Remembrance of Things Past

[alienejj]

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

— Marcel Proust.

[ankazey]

"Benim içimde, daima var olacağını zannettiğim birçok şey yok oldu."'