More Quotes by Marcel Proust
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
