Marcel Proust Quotes

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

Friendship, Happy, Grateful

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Real, Eyes, Discovery

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Eyes, Discovery, Seeking

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust

Great, Alone, Everything

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust

Sympathy, Happiness, Mind

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

Knowledge, Alone, Live

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Real, Eyes, Discovery

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
Marcel Proust

Mind, State, Passing

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

Wisdom, After, Ourselves

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust

Change, Weather, Ourselves

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust

Mind, Made, Decisions

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust

Art, Person, Through

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust

Time, Dream, Dangerous

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust

Freedom, Men, Science

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust

Book, Days, Childhood

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust

Medical, Knowledge, Pain

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust

Medical, Understand, Doctor

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust

Work, Book, Makes

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust

Time, Inspire, Habit

Love is a reciprocal torture.
Marcel Proust

Love, Torture, Reciprocal

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust

Life, Wise, Him

Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel Proust

Love, Time, Heart

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust

Time, Changes, Image

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust

Love, Woman, Another

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust

Intelligence, Simple, Saying

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: July 10, 1871

Died: November 18, 1922

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