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."
"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."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
"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."