Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Quote by Marcel Proust

Topics: Marcel Proust Quotes

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their...

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their...

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one,...

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one,...

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not...

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new...

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.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion...

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us...

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us...

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination

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

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

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

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,...

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when...

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when...

The prince is very brave, to love a unicorn. A cat can appreciate valiant absurdity.

The prince is very brave, to love a unicorn. A cat can appreciate valiant absurdity.