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Quotes by Marcel Proust

French novelist (1871 - 1922)

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

One of a hostess's duties is to act as procuress.

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

The only paradise is paradise lost.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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

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.

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

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

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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

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

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