Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
MARCEL PROUSTThe courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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 wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTThere comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUST