The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
Marcel ProustIt is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel ProustOne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Marcel ProustIn a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.
Marcel Proust