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."
"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."
"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."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."