One says the things which one feels the need to say, and whi... - Marcel Proust
"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."
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."
"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."
"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."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."