More Quotes by Marcel Proust
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
