Marcel Proust

"All human beings are bound to each other by a secret affinity."

"The night is our ally in solitude and thought."

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

"We should concern ourselves not with the future but with the present moment."

"The cruelest thing a man can do is to abandon one who loves him for another."

"Art is the only thing that is really worth anything."

"We live in rooms of our own making."

"The true progress of the soul is when it learns to forgive."

"Music moves us in rhythms that our hearts understand."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the praise which is the breath of life."

"The only thing constant in life is change."

"A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the larger work."

"The only true voyage of discovery is not to visit strange lands but to possess fresh eyes."

"Time is like a river of passing events and strong is its current."

"The warmth of another's faith can thaw a frozen soul."

"We are dying from too many opinions and too little love."

"The heart wants what the heart wants."

"To be able to savor the flavor of life, one must work."

"Every act of perception is also an act of creation."

"The most beautiful discoveries are often the result of following the wrong path."

"Our life with other people is only the life that matters."

"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."

"In love we lie awake in fear of losing."

"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."

"Fate is a mysterious force, and we are but its instruments."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"We should never be ashamed of our tears."

"The privilege of greatness is to see the world in a grain of sand."

"Love never dies; it only transforms."

"The greatest treasures are hidden within ourselves."