A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust
- Life
- 1871-1922
- Occupations
- novelist, essayist, writer
- Notable works
- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, In Search of Lost Time, Jean Santeuil
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
Marcel Proust
That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Marcel Proust
The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust