More Quotes by Marcel Proust
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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.
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.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
