1,085 Quotes by Marcel Proust

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.