Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it? — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
![“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between the two that she came to see their qualities as interchangeable, expecting material comfort from virtue and moral edification from wealth.” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/marcel-proust-114_character_for-her-fran-oise-wealth-was-like-a-nece_2687.jpg)
