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.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
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.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
