More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
