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."
"It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"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."
"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."