Marcel Proust Quotes.
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 love only what we do not wholly possess.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
