It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.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
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.Marcel Proust
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.Marcel Proust
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.Marcel Proust
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.Marcel Proust
