My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

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 sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.