Author: Marcel Proust

Quotes

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

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

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

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

- 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

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

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

- 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

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

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

- Marcel Proust

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