Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that read more

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as read more

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.

The only paradise is paradise lost

The only paradise is paradise lost