black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

To 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 PROUST

Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUST

Heart Love Space Time
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUST

Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUST

Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
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
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
MARCEL PROUST

Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
MARCEL PROUST

Beauty Possible Promise
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
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
MARCEL PROUST

Inspirational Ourselves Tears
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MARCEL PROUST

Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Literature Lying Time
The 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 PROUST

Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
MARCEL PROUST

Illusion Science Space
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Sound Time
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUST

Art Ourselves See World
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
MARCEL PROUST

Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marcel Proust Quotes