Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the m... - Marcel Proust

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

"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."

"It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

"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."

"One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone."