It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. – Marcel Proust

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. – Marcel Proust
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. – Marcel Proust
Every reader finds himself. The writers work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. – Marcel Proust
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. – Elizabeth Gilbert