...the seaside life and the life of travel made me realise that the theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer a… - Marcel Proust

The theatre of the world is stocked with fewer settings than actors, and with fewer actors than situations.

Autrefois on rêvait de posséder le cœur de la femme dont on était amoureux; plus tard sentir qu’on possède le cœur d’une femme peut suffire à vous en rendre amoureux.

زمان آدم‌ها را دگرگون می‌کند اما تصویری را که از ایشان داریم ثابت نگه می‌دارد. هیچ چیزی دردناک‌تر از این تضاد میان دگرگونی آدم‌ها و ثبات خاطره نیست

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.