More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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.
