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 PROUSTThanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
MARCEL PROUSTAs long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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 PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
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 PROUSTWe think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUSTIt comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUST