More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
