The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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 PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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 PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTEven though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
MARCEL PROUST