Marcel Proust Quotes

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

"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade."
-Marcel Proust in Possessions quotes.

"Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians."
-Marcel Proust in Love quotes.

"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 in Wisdom quotes.

"The only paradise is paradise lost."
-Marcel Proust

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

"I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter."
-Marcel Proust in Writing quotes.

"It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad."
-Marcel Proust

"One of a hostess's duties is to act as procuress."
-Marcel Proust

"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. "
-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."
-Marcel Proust

"Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe. "
-Marcel Proust

"There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible."
-Marcel Proust

"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity."
-Marcel Proust

"The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others."
-Marcel Proust

"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing."
-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."
-Marcel Proust

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust