The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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 PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTEven though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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 PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUST