More Quotes by Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
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.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
