A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTDeath is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTEven though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUSTYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUSTTo write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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 PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUST