Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTAll our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTWe think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUSTThe fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUST