Marcel Proust Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.”

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

“A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.”

“In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.”

“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.”

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

“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.”

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

“We become moral when we are unhappy.”

“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.”