Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. — Marcel Proust
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. — Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. — Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. — Marcel Proust
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. — Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. — Marcel Proust