Maxioms by Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as read more
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to read more
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a read more
There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.