More Quotes by Marcel Proust
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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.
