Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTInstead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
MARCEL PROUSTDeath is in truth an illness from which we recover
MARCEL PROUSTWe think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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 I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
MARCEL PROUSTReality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
MARCEL PROUSTPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
MARCEL PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
MARCEL PROUSTIt is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUSTEverything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
MARCEL PROUSTNo man is a complete mystery except to himself.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
MARCEL PROUSTThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
MARCEL PROUSTThe bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUST