More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
