The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
Marcel ProustIllness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
Marcel ProustThe highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
Marcel ProustNot caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.
Marcel ProustThere is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
Marcel Proust