Quote: 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]
Quote: We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions [Marcel Proust]
Quote: All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: That translucent alabaster of our memories. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. [Marcel Proust]
Quote: People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus. [Marcel Proust]