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The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) QUOTES

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) QUOTES

1 " It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

2 " The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

3 " Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

4 " Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

5 " But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

6 " So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow! "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

7 " She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

8 " As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

9 " I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

10 " I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

11 " Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void from which at odd moments a chance resemblance enables ones to resuscitate dead recollections, but even then, there are innumerable little details which have not fallen into that potential reservoir of memory, and which will remain for ever unverifiable. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

12 " When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

13 " I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

14 " We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

15 " One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

16 " We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourselves. The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than another thought. There is no idea that does not carry in itself its possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

17 " The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

18 " So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

19 " Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's honour. One lies all one's life long, even, especially, perhaps only, to those who love one. For they alone make us fear for our pleasure and desire their esteem. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

20 " Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits. "

― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)