Year Proust

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or proust:

“Never read any book that is not a year old.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we do not know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)