Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
Weitere Zitate von Marcel Proust
Zum Autor"Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind."
"A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream."
"The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome."
"All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last."