Marcel Proust
23 quotations
Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
We become moral when we are unhappy.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.