Marcel Proust

"The heart knows truths that the mind has yet to discover."

"Art is the conversation between souls separated by time and space."

"Life is too short to spend it being someone you are not."

"The greatest gift we can give another is our undivided attention."

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

"Lost time is never found again."

"The only 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."

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

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being lynched."

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

"The creature that has never wept is not ourselves."

"Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness."

"Our defects are the price we pay for our existence."

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

"In order to understand literature, we must understand life."

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

"Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go."

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

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

"There is no greater egotist than the unsuccessful artist."

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument."

"The ineffable is only the ineffably banal."

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

"One should as a rule avoid speaking ill of those we do not know."

"The true paradox is that we preserve our identity by constantly changing."

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

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly in retrospect."