3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
3 December 2020 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.
