More quotes by Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
"It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
"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."