1,085 Quotes by Marcel Proust

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

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

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.