Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.”

“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”

“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 do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”

“The only paradise is paradise lost.”

“The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.”

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

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