Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

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.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

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

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.