We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTWe do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
-
-
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
MARCEL PROUST -
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUST -
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST -
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUST -
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
MARCEL PROUST -
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUST -
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUST -
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUST -
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUST -
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUST -
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
MARCEL PROUST -
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
MARCEL PROUST -
Desire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUST -
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUST -
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUST






