Marcel Proust Quotes About Pleasure

• Las mentiras son esenciales para la humanidad. Quizá sean tan importantes como la búsqueda del placer y, además, están dictadas por esa búsqueda.

  Marcel Proust

  Vida, Éxito, Mentir

  Marcel Proust (1948). "Las máximas de Marcel Proust"

• She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

  Marcel Proust

  Clouds, Laughing, Tea

  Marcel Proust (1982). "Recuerdos del pasado: El camino de Swann y En un bosquecillo", Vintage

• Se ha dicho que la belleza es una promesa de felicidad. A la inversa, la posibilidad de placer puede ser un principio de belleza.

  Marcel Proust

  Belleza, Promesa, Placer

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). "El cautivo, El fugitivo"

• Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.

  Marcel Proust

  Home, Dark, Doors

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In the shadow of young girls in flower”, ePenguin

• En aquel momento, satisfacía una curiosidad sensual experimentando los placeres de la gente que vive por amor. Había creído que podía detenerse allí, que no se vería obligado a conocer sus penas; ¡qué poca cosa era ahora para él su encanto comparado con el asombroso terror que se extendía desde él como un halo turbio, la inmensa angustia de no saber en cada momento lo que ella había estado haciendo, de no poseerla en todas partes y siempre!

  Marcel Proust

  Conocer, Gente, Sensual

  Marcel Proust (2003). "En busca del tiempo perdido: el camino por Swann's", p.369, Penguin UK

• Las personas pueden tener muchos tipos de placer. El verdadero es aquel por el que renuncian a los demás.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, People, Different

• The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Truth Is, Pleasure

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Guermantes way. Cities of the plain”, Vintage

• No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Childhood, Pleasure

  Marcel Proust (1948). “Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings”

• Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning.

  Marcel Proust

  Writing, Yawning, Want

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.460, Modern Library

• Una especie de autoevaluación egoísta es inevitable en esas alegrías en las que la erudición y el arte se mezclan y en las que el placer estético puede agudizarse, pero no permanecer tan puro.

  Marcel Proust

  Arte, Ser, Alegría

  Prefacio de Marcel Proust (1910) a John Ruskin "The Bible of Amiens" traducido por Marcel Proust (1904); citado posteriormente en "Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin" traducido por Jean Autret y Philip J. Wolfe (p. 53), 1987.

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