More quotes by Marcel Proust

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"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."
"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."