Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
MARCEL PROUSTOnly by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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 PROUSTJust as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
MARCEL PROUSTReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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 PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTMy destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
MARCEL PROUST