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
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton