The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTWe don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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 is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTDo not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUSTThe fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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 PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUST