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 PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUSTA photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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 PROUSTOne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen 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 PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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 PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTIt comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUST