My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTYou can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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 PROUSTThanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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 PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUSTYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUST