Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Marcel ProustLike everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel ProustIn times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.
Marcel ProustHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust