Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to read more

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the read more

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a read more

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality read more

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.