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.
Weitere Zitate von Marcel Proust
Zum Autor"He had so long since ceased to direct his life toward any ideal goal, and had confined himself to the pursuit of quotidian satisfactions, that he had come to believe, though without ever formally stating his belief even to himself that he would remain all his life in that condition, which only death could alter."
"All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last."
"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."
"Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself."