Marcel ProustThinkers

Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Adultery is not about giving our love to another. Our partner whom we love rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive them with another whom we do not love.

Adultery is capable of breathing new life into marriages which have been left for dead..

Affection grows faint not because other people are dead, but because we ourselves are dying.

Altruism is necessarily egoism, or else it is sterile.

Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

The Artist's world is failure and whose task is to fail as no others dare to fail.

Atheism offers the highest praise of God in that, in denying God, the atheist reveals that he finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

Beauty is a promise of happiness, and conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Beauty is boring in women. Pretty women ought to be left to men devoid of imagination.

Being unfaithful is not about love. Becausae a single person rarely suffices for all our needs, we deceive the woman we love with another whom we do not.