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."
"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 that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
"It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."