Marcel Proust Quotes

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

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another`s view of the universe.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

We don`t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness

The only paradise is paradise lost

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

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

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

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

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