Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTLet us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUSTYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUSTIt comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
MARCEL PROUSTWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUSTIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUSTHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUSTThe only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUSTRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
MARCEL PROUSTWe love only what we do not wholly possess.
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 PROUSTOne becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
MARCEL PROUSTTime, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUSTWhen you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
MARCEL PROUSTDesire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
MARCEL PROUST