Quotes about Marcel Proust

Our passions shape our books. Repose writes them in the intervals.

#Marcel Proust

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

#Marcel Proust

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it...

#Marcel Proust

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

#Marcel Proust

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

#Marcel Proust

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

#Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

#Marcel Proust

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it,...

#Marcel Proust

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

#Marcel Proust

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the...

#Marcel Proust

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

#Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.

#Marcel Proust