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 are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.Marcel Proust
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.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
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.Marcel Proust
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.Marcel Proust
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.Marcel Proust
