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.Marcel Proust
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.Marcel Proust
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.Marcel Proust
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.Marcel Proust
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.Marcel Proust
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.Marcel Proust
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.Marcel Proust
