Author Topic: ~ Marcel Proust Quotes ~ (Read 2301 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** March 23, 2015, 04:48:51 PM »

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** March 23, 2015, 04:49:27 PM »

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** March 23, 2015, 04:50:06 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2015, 04:50:42 PM »

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2015, 04:51:17 PM »

Less disappointing than life great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:11:03 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:11:36 PM »

Time passes and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:12:12 PM »

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:12:53 PM »

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:13:34 PM »

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:14:17 PM »

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:15:02 PM »

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms because if one were on good terms one would not part.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:15:41 PM »

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:16:21 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2015, 05:17:07 PM »

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

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