The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUSTThe courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUSTIt comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTAs long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
MARCEL PROUSTDo not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTWe live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTThere comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUST