Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery cons….

The only possible paradises are those we have lost.

The only paradise is paradise lost..

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality..

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite..

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet subs….

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter..

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are..

I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that c….

You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which h….

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….

Under each station of the real, another glimmers..

The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men….

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and….

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far..

When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People livin….

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality..

Desire makes everything blossom.

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but le….

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, i….

The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love..