About Marcel Proust: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors of all time.
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long ...
So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we com...
l'oubli dont je commençais à sentir la force et qui est un si puissant instrument d'adaptation à la réalité parce qu'il détruit peu à peu le passé survivant qui est en constante contradiction avec elle.
Yanımızdayken fazlasıyla bildik olan hayatına, birden kaçınılmaz olarak içine karışacağı başka hayatlar eklenir; belki de bizi o hayatlara karışmak için terk etmiştir. Giden kadının hayatındaki bu yeni zenginlik, geriye dönük ol...
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
She’s an absolute idiot!” she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyo...
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into t...
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one else can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world....
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
