Marcel Proust

"Love is space and time measured with the heart."

- Marcel Proust

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

- Marcel Proust

"naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May."

- Marcel Proust

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

- Marcel Proust

"Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."

- Marcel Proust

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

- Marcel Proust

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

- Marcel Proust

"I wondered whether music might not be a unique example of what might have been – if the invention of language had not intervened — the means of communication between souls."

- Marcel Proust

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

- Marcel Proust

"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."

- Marcel Proust

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."

- Marcel Proust

"Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates."

- Marcel Proust

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

- Marcel Proust

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

- Marcel Proust

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

- Marcel Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

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

- Marcel Proust

"Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

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

- Marcel Proust

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey."

- Marcel Proust

"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which there is now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."

- Marcel Proust

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

- Marcel Proust

"We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

- Marcel Proust

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."

- Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to those who make us happy, they are charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy."

- Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

""Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.""

- Marcel Proust

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them."

- Marcel Proust

"If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

- Marcel Proust