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More Quotes by Marcel Proust
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.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
