Marcel Proust

"The future is hidden from us by a veil of infinity."

"Habit is a second nature which keeps us from knowing the first."

"We are dying every moment and being born again each instant."

"The writer's true wealth is solitude."

"Beauty consists of a certain relation between diverse things."

"Thought is a river that flows endlessly through the mind."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Friendship is a sheltered port in the storm of life."

"The past has a way of defining us."

"Love is finding someone whose weirdness is compatible with yours."

"We can only love what we do not fully understand."

"The greatest masterpieces are those which reveal the most about their creator."

"Freedom is knowing who you are when no one is watching."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."

"The mind is a universe unto itself."

"Art is the effort to make thought visible."

"Time heals nothing. It merely gives us the grace to bear our wounds."

"The real world is known through the imagination."

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations known."

"Life is a succession of moments we do not live."

"The paradox of experience is that it teaches us while it deceives us."

"Beauty emerges from the contemplation of truth."

"Courage is the recognition that fear is inevitable but necessary."

"Work is the refuge of people with nothing better to do."

"The past is always with us, shaping who we become."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"Music is the food of love, and love is the food of life."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Strength is not the absence of weakness but the transcendence of it."

"Fear keeps us from experiencing life fully."