Author: Marcel Proust

Quotes

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

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

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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

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

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

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

- 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

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

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

- 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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