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.
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.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
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.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
