Marcel Proust

Szczęście jest pożyteczne dla ciała, ale to trudy rozwijają siłę umysłu.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Medycyna nie zna tajemnicy wyleczenia, ale zapewniła sobie umiejętność przedłużania chorób.

A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

When life walls us in our intelligence cuts an opening, for, though there be no remedy for an unrequited love, on can win release from suffering, even if only by drawing from the lessons it has to teach. The intelligence does not recognize in life any closed situations without an outlet.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time keep one foot on the ground.

Ten cytat ma więcej niż dwa języki

Jedyne prawdziwe raje to utracone raje.

The only true paradises are lost paradises.

Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus.

For every disease that doctors cure with medicine, they produce ten in healthy people by inoculating them with that virus which is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Błogosławiona niech będzie choroba! Chorzy są bliżsi swej duszy aniżeli zdrowi.

Ten cytat ma więcej niż dwa języki

Prawdziwe badanie świata nie polega na poszukiwaniu nowych lądów, ale na patrzeniu w nowy sposób.

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

真正的發現之旅不在於找尋新的景點,而在於獲得新的眼界。

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.