The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. Marcel Proust More Quotes by Marcel Proust More Quotes From Marcel Proust We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. Marcel Proust perspectivebelievethinking Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again! Marcel Proust tearsrunningpast Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. Marcel Proust stupidityintellectualsimple If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. Marcel Proust luxuryliteraturetrying We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering. Marcel Proust foundationgriefsuffering Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us. Marcel Proust passionlyingart Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Marcel Proust gamblingdoctorsintelligent Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. Marcel Proust frustratedlove-ispeople There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence. Marcel Proust flutessilenceears A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. Marcel Proust powerfulstrengthinspirational No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. Marcel Proust crumbspalateliquid The only possible paradises are those we have lost Marcel Proust paradiselost As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting. Marcel Proust womengirlpast Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. Marcel Proust communicationmiraclereading Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue. Marcel Proust blackskyblue A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. Marcel Proust doctorsfoolscience Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality. Marcel Proust easyrealityneeds We become moral when we are unhappy. Marcel Proust unhappinessmoralunhappy Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. Marcel Proust proustnovelistscentury Under each station of the real, another glimmers. Marcel Proust stationsrealreality
