Famous quotes containing the word proust:
“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“That translucent alabaster of our memories.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)