Marcel Proust

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

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy."

"The only true paradise is the paradise that we have lost."

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed."

"The time we waste is the time in which illness thrives."

"Our task is not to find the meaning of life but to create meaning in life."

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

"The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind."

"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

"Everything is art. Everything is politics."

"A person doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore."

"The body of a woman is like a book of which the first chapter is not in the least the most beautiful."

"Belief is now out of the question, but I no longer have the heart to hope for anything."

"The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm of our memory."

"People do not like to admit that they have made a mistake, especially a serious one."

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

"A change in the weather is sufficient to reconstruct the entire world and ourselves."

"Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies beyond."

"The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others."

"In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love."

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes."

"Time passes and we change; through time something new comes into being and older things fade away."

"The pieces of a person's life can only come together to create a coherent shape when we step back and look at it all from a great distance."

"Death must be something dreadful. If it were not, he would not be so carefully avoided."

"A book is the only place in which we can still find solitude."

"Every great movement in the world begins with a single act of rebellion."