More quotes by Marcel Proust

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
"Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up."
"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
"Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."