We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUSTThe fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTEverything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
MARCEL PROUSTDear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUSTAlways try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
MARCEL PROUST