Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTReality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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 PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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 PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTYou can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUSTOne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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 PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUST