We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

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.

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.