More Quotes by Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
