All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
MARCEL PROUSTAll our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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 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 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 PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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 PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
MARCEL PROUSTA picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTOne becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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 PROUSTA woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
MARCEL PROUST