Quotes by Proust, Marcel

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have fo >>

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in >>

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most >>

Quotations about Memory

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. >>

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory. >>

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in >>

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.

Proust, Marcel