The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Votes: 49
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Votes: 14
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Votes: 14
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Votes: 12
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. Votes: 8
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Votes: 0
The only paradise is paradise lost. Votes: 0
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. Votes: 0
To the pure all things are pure! Votes: 0
... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly. Votes: 0
It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering. Votes: 0
And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. Votes: 0
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. Votes: 0
The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us..... Votes: 0
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. Votes: 0
Love is a reciprocal torture. Votes: 0
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. Votes: 0
The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes. Votes: 0
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. Votes: 0
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. Votes: 0
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. Votes: 0
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. Votes: 0
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates. Votes: 0
Desire makes everything blossom Votes: 0
Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand. Votes: 0
For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.] Votes: 0
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. Votes: 0
I should have been happy: I wasn't. Votes: 0
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. Votes: 0
Lies are essential to humanity. Votes: 0
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet. Votes: 0
She was "a woman of uncertain age. Votes: 0
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's. Votes: 0
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. Votes: 0
The heart does not lie. Votes: 0
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. Votes: 0
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. Votes: 0
We become moral when we are unhappy. Votes: 0