More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
