It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUSTIf we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUSTIt comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom.
MARCEL PROUSTThe creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy.
MARCEL PROUSTIn love, happiness is an abnormal state.
MARCEL PROUSTNine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
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 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 PROUSTThe only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
MARCEL PROUST