Marcel Proust Quotes

Let us be grateful to the 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.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.