Marcel Proust quotes

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

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.

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.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

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.

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.

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.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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 must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

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