More Quotes by Marcel Proust
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.