More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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.
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
