Quotes About Marcel

She took up the defence of the Republic, and against its anti-clericalism had not more to say than: "I should be equally annoyed whether they prevented me from hearing mass when I wanted to, or forced me to hear it when I didn't!

Love is nothing more perhaps than the stimulation of those eddies which, in the wake of an emotion, stir the soul

If I have always been so much interested in dreams, is it not because, compensating duration with intensity they help us to understand better what is subjective in love?

as the saying is, climbing in opposition to my

Probably what is wanting, the first time, is not comprehension but memory.

not for a triumph of dramatic artistry but for a manifestation of life;

the fascination of my book, a magic as potent as the deepest slumber,

For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike.

I thought it was a novel." "It is." "What's it about??" "You'll have to buy it to find out, but it's got everything: love, death and an amusing dog." "This one's got a recipe for apple crumble," I said. "Don't you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?" he said.

Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it was a fancy-dress ball.

The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.