Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUSTLove ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTJust as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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 PROUSTReality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTTo write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTYou can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUST