Marcel Proust II

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

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

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.