Marcel Proust's Quotes

Marcel Proust's Quotes 22

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical...

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey...

We must never be afraid to go too far for truth lies beyond.

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Time which changes people does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it...

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

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which...

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness to knowledge we...

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their...

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Like many intellectuals he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a...

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the...

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming...

As long as men are free to ask what they must free to say what they think...

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries...

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person...

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded...