Love is space and time measured by the heart.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.