Marcel Proust
“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“The only true paradise is paradise lost.”
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
“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.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”