“The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.”
—Marcel Proust.
“The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.”
—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.
“The more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.”
—Marcel Proust.
“A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius.”
—Marcel Proust.
“If I could be sure of doing with my books as much as my [doctor] father did for the sick!”
—Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922).
“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”
—Marcel Proust.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
—Marcel Proust.
“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.”
Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~Marcel Proust, quoted in “Empty Nesters”