The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
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 PROUSTDeath is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTThanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTOne becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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 PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTWe must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUST