black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUST

Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
The 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 PROUST

Imperfection Judgement View
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUST

Desire Difference Fade
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
MARCEL PROUST

Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUST

Moments Wait
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
MARCEL PROUST

Dignity Existence Photography Reality
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUST

Existence Mindset Money Relationship
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST

Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Eyes Travel Wisdom
Desire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUST

Desire One Liner
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
MARCEL PROUST

Himself Learning Men Truth
The 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 PROUST

Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice
The 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 PROUST

Atheist Creation Perfection
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
MARCEL PROUST

Happiness People Thinking

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marcel Proust Quotes