Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel Proust
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion, have no time to return to us gradually, before sleep ceases. Then, from the black storm through which we seem to have passed (but we do not even say we), we emerge prostrate, without a thought, a we that is void of content.”
“It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.”
“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
“...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.”
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.”
“...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.”
“Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.”
“The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.”
“I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her to my consciousness to be driven yet deeper.”
“A man who, night after night, falls like a lump of lead upon his bed, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will such a man ever dream of making, I do not say great discoveries, but even minute observations upon sleep? He barely knows that he does sleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. A memory without fault is not a very powerful incentive to studying the phenomena of memory.”
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dishonesty, french, birth, void, death, self, pain, renewal, grandmothers, proust, insomnia, self-deception, memory, escape
