Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. Marcel Proust centurychangedrastically Change image and share on social
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 chancechemicaldangerous Change image and share on social
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust consistdiscoveryeye Change image and share on social
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. Marcel Proust changerecreatesufficient Change image and share on social
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 blanceffectivelyexile Change image and share on social
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. Marcel Proust consciousnessexpungegladly share on social
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. Marcel Proust benighteddeplorablefashion Change image and share on social
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust doctorheedillness Change image and share on social
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust discoverjourneyreceive Change image and share on social
