It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
Marcel Proust Quotes
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one’s mind.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us around it, led us past it, and […]
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.
The countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
