The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust
The ”sensitiveness” claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. Marcel Proust
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. Marcel Proust
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals…is the plagiarism of ourself. Marcel Proust
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
We become moral when we are unhappy. Marcel Proust