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

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

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Marcel Proust

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

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust

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

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel Proust

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust

We become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel Proust

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust

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

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust