People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUSTThe highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUSTThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTThe artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUST