More Quotes by Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
