Albertine Gone Quotes

#1. In French: La Fugitive, Albertine disparue Also translated as: The Sweet Cheat Gone, Albertine Gone

Stephen Fall

#2. From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine's room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel bars of gold.

Marcel Proust

#3. In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always be so, unless I were to shut her up in prison (but prisoners escape) until the end.

Marcel Proust

#4. Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote.

Prince

#5. I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...

Albertine Sarrazin

#6. I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.

Marcel Proust

#7. Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Terry Eagleton

#8. Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

Patrick Suskind

#9. Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne

#10. Well, you see, there were these ninjas...

S.A. Hunter

#11. Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.

Louise Erdrich

#12. The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration.

Mitch McConnell

#13. As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

Marcel Proust

#15. It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

Toni Morrison

#16. Her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.

Marcel Proust

#17. I had indeed suffered successively through Gilberte, through Mme de Guermantes, through Albertine. Successively also I had forgotten them and only my love, dedicated at different times to different beings, had lasted.

Marcel Proust

#18. I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.

Viv Albertine

#19. When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.

Rumi

#20. Her blue, almond-shaped eyes - now even more elongated - had altered in appearance; they were indeed of the same colour, but seemed to have passed into a liquid state. So much so that, when she closed them, it was as though a pair of curtains had been drawn to shut out a view of the sea.

Marcel Proust

#21. The harm that Albertine had done me was a last bond between her and myself which outlived memory even, for with the conservation of energy which belongs to everything that is physical, suffering has no need of the lessons of memory.

Marcel Proust