Love is space and time measured by the heart. - Marcel Proust

"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."

"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."

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."