1,085 Quotes by Marcel Proust

Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.