black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

To 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 PROUST

Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Sound Time
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUST

Art Ourselves See World
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
MARCEL PROUST

Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUST

Cheating Love Relationship Woman
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUST

Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
MARCEL PROUST

Memories Oneself Place
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
MARCEL PROUST

Oneself Opportunity Thinking
The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUST

Lost Paradise
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUST

Endurance Fantasy Reality
Do 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 PROUST

Life Moments Wait
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUST

Break Distance Food Past Taste
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUST

Illusion Science Space
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUST

Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUST

Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUST

Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marcel Proust Quotes