Author: Marcel Proust

Quotes

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

- Marcel Proust

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.

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.

- Marcel Proust

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

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

- 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

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

- 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

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

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

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

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

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