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 ProustIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel ProustIf a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel ProustIt is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
Marcel ProustReality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
Marcel ProustThere is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.
Marcel Proust