black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Marcel Proust

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUST

Beauty Possible Promise
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUST

Break Distance Food Past Taste
The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUST

Lost Paradise
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
MARCEL PROUST

Body Different Ourselves
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUST

Desire Difference Fade
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUST

Literature Love Reality
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUST

Death Recovery Truth
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
MARCEL PROUST

Practice Profession Recognition Vice
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUST

Dream Inspirational Love Time
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Love Reality
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUST

Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUST

Happiness People Thinking
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUST

Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUST

Human Love Nature
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

Discover Ourselves Wisdom
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
MARCEL PROUST

Courage Eyes Opinion

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marcel Proust Quotes