The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
Marcel ProustWe believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Marcel ProustOur shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
Marcel ProustThe true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.
Marcel Proust... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.
Marcel Proust