- A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. Marcel Proust »
- And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying. Marcel Proust »
- Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade. Marcel Proust »
- Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust »
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. Marcel Proust »
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. Marcel Proust »
- The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. Marcel Proust »
- The only paradise is paradise lost. Marcel Proust »
- The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. Marcel Proust »
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust »
- The true paradises are paradises we have lost. Marcel Proust »
- Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. Marcel Proust »
- We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us. Marcel Proust »
- We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. Marcel Proust »
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