Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust
Love Quotes
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.
Marcel Proust
Friendship Quotes
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Marcel Proust
Love Quotes
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust
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
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
Marcel Proust
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.