More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare 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.
