The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.
Marcel ProustMedicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.
Marcel ProustWords 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 ProustOur intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
Marcel Proust