MARCEL PROUST

 

 

MARCEL PROUST Quotations:

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

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

"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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. "

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

"Love is space and time measured by the heart. "

"Love is a reciprocal torture."

"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." 

"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. "

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

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

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

"The only paradise is paradise lost. "

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