Marcel Proust

Quotes

• “Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are ce...”
• “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immorta...”
• “Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the ...”
• “One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alo...”
• “We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
• “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
• “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
• “Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
• “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
• “My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
• “It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
• “Love is space and time measured by the heart.”