padla

Marcel Proust quote ✍️

Quote

And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid and more abiding than those which come to us in sleep, why then, for the space of an hour he sets free within us all the joys and sorrows in the world, a few of which only we should have to spend years of our actual life in getting to know, and the most intense of which would never be revealed to us because the slow course of their development prevents us from perceiving them. It is the same in life; the heart changes, and it is our worst sorrow; but we know it only through reading, through our imagination: in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
Marcel Proust book change literature novel reading

Related Quotes

The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, w…
Marcel Proust Swann's Way books literature reading words writing
Then the prophetess said to the witcher: "I shall give you this advice: wear boots made of iron, takein hand a staff of steel. Then walk until the end of the world. Help yourself w…
Andrzej Sapkowski Czas pogardy destiny fatalism fate
... Des felt a familiar feeling in the pit of his stomach. All soldiers felt the same thing going into battle, whether they admitted it or not: fear. Fear of failure, fear of dying…
Drew Karpyshyn Path of Destruction anger fear hate sith

Similar Crossword Answers

Answer Clues
HATE 468 clues
FEAR 467 clues
ANGER 330 clues
CHANGE 302 clues
NOVEL 270 clues
FATE 218 clues
BOOK 188 clues
WORDS 118 clues
DESTINY 84 clues
SITH 75 clues
WRITING 74 clues
READING 52 clues
LITERATURE 47 clues
BOOKS 44 clues
FATALISM 19 clues

Similar crossword clues

  1. Marcel, Raoul, etc. 75.86%
  2. Writer Proust 69.23%
  3. Marcel's pate 69.23%
  4. Marcel Marceau 66.67%
  5. Marcel Marceau's art 66.67%
  6. Marcel, for one 66.67%
  7. Marcel's mighty 64.29%
  8. Novelist Proust 64.29%
  9. Marcel's mother 64.29%
  10. Marcel's "Wow!" 64.00%
  11. Proust 63.16%
  12. Marcel 63.16%
  13. Marcel Marceau's forte 62.86%
  14. Marcel the novelist 62.50%
  15. Summer, to Proust 62.07%
  16. Marcel's well 61.54%
  17. Marcel's menu 61.54%
  18. Marcel's wave 61.54%
  19. "___ Way," by Proust. 61.54%
  20. " . . . after the people ___": Proust 61.11%
✏️ Suggest new clue

Related word tools

Unscramble MARCEL6-letter words that start with M6-letter words that end in L6-letter words containing AR6-letter words containing EL6-letter words with M and A
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
?
E
?
E
?
N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
Play Crossword
7 +1

New Crossword Suggestion

Clue
Answer (solution)