Marcel Proust Quotes



Best Quotes by Marcel Proust

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

“The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

“To think that I’ve wasted years of my life, that I’ve longed to die, that I’ve experienced my greatest love, for a woman who didn’t appeal to me, who wasn’t even my type!”

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

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“How easily a man who has never been in any great distress, may pass through life without knowing, in his own person at least, anything of the possible goodness of the human heart ? or, as I must add with a sigh, of its possible vileness. So a thick curtain of manners is drawn over the features and expression of men's natures, that to the ordinary observer, the two extremities, and the infinite field of varieties which lie between them, are all confounded ? the vast and multitudinous line of differences expressed in the gamut or alphabet of elementary sounds.”


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