Marcel Proust

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

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them…

Love is space and time measured by the heart…

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what…

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

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

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we…

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

Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that…

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in…

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at…

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

The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it…

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way…

We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no…