Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Quote by Marcel Proust

Topics: Choice Quotes, Quality Quotes

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually....

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually....

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint,...

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint,...

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which...

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which...

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as...

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as...

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

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

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

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

The only paradise is paradise lost

The only paradise is paradise lost

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

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

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

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least...

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least...

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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

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

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going...

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going...

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware...

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware...

It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of...

It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of...

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that...

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that...