Marcel Proust Quotes


Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. - Marcel Proust


Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. - Marcel Proust


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. - Marcel Proust


We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. - Marcel Proust


We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust


We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. - Marcel Proust


We become moral when we are unhappy. - Marcel Proust


We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. - Marcel Proust


We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. - Marcel Proust


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