Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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 PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTOne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTWe do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTWe think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUST