Marcel Proust

"The only way out is through."

"We must accept every delay and disappointment as a necessary part of our progress."

"A person is oneself plus the same person he was yesterday, plus all those he loves."

"I have lost my heart. How strange to lose what I never had."

"Even the smallest truth is better than the grandest of lies."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"The purpose of music is by its end to form the man or woman after God's own heart."

"Men do not stop playing because they grow old; they grow old because they stop playing."

"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order incarnate."

"To read is to want more of what made me feel good."

"Every action we take is a form of creation."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."

"Whoever does not know the language of silence will never know the language of truth."

"The same person is not emotional and logical; emotion and logic are the same person moving between different registers."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"If we lived for a thousand years and saw the earth a thousand times, we would still be strangers to it."

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

"The great quality of the mind is imagination."

"What an elder sees sitting down, a youth cannot see standing up."

"The only real paradise is always the one we have lost."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"To love is to choose."

"Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity."

"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common."

"Our life is a constant attempt to bridge this gap between the way we are and the way we want to be."

"The best thing we can do is to make whoever we are talking with feel that he or she is the only person in the world."

"We accept everything about our friends except the way they behave."

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

"A man cannot change the world, but he can spread ideas that will change the world."

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."