Marcel Proust

"Beauty is something that burns your skin a little."

"We can accomplish almost anything if we set our minds to it."

"The days pass slowly, but the years pass quickly."

"One has art in order not to perish from the truth."

"Courtesy is the poetry of behavior."

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing."

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

"Each reader is, when reading, the reader of his own self."

"Talent is a continuum. Genius is singular."

"Memory is an instrument of great power and utility."

"The real life is the one we do not lead."

"To love in the way that one is loved is an impossible task."

"Even the slightest thing contains a whole world."

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

"We live for but a second in the eyes of eternity."

"The only true voyage is the one we have not yet taken."

"Men do not cease to be children because they grow older."

"A person shows his character in the way he handles setbacks."

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish."

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue."

"Intelligence in women is less valued than beauty."

"The true reward for an act is to have performed it."

"Our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people."

"Time is the creation of those who cannot perceive eternity."

"Wisdom comes from experience."

"The privilege of greatness is to perceive the world differently."

"Nature is full of inexplicable things."

"A moment always seemed to last a thousand years."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Understanding is partly the result of feeling."