We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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 PROUSTAn hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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 PROUSTLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTThe artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
MARCEL PROUSTThere 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 PROUSTPeople don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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 PROUST