Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.