Marcel Proust Quotes

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Marcel Proust

Profession : Author

Birth : July 10, 1871

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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

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

Marcel Proust

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

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

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

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

Marcel Proust

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

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

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

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust

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