People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUSTAll our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTThe highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTOne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTDo not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
MARCEL PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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 PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUST