Author: Marcel Proust

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

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

- 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.

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

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