"In Search of Lost Time" Quotes

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are all too quickly inclined to put our own name to what is good and to hold that we have a monopoly of the truth.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

We never cease to be ourselves, even when the face we show the world changes.

For one thing is certain, that at the time of death we are not conscious of dying.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.