Marcel Proust

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.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

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

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

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in read more

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.