Author of quotes: Marcel Proust. Page 4

Sir, I am not able to tell you whether there was rain. I live so much in the side of any weather contingencies that my senses don't bother bringing them to my consciousness.

We live only with those whom you do not like someone forced to live with us, only to kill the intolerable love.

We lack only the necessary: a large piece of the sky. Try to always keep a piece of sky over your life.

Some days in human life can compare with the cliffs: climbing them with incredible difficulty, seeing no end to the way. Other days - like plain: moving on him easily, soon and smoothly.

Wanting to forget the person we are in a state where our memory makes everything contrary to this desire.

Never so miserable as it seems.

Don't be afraid to go too far, because the truth is always further.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but sorrow develops only the ability of the spirit.
(Happiness is good for the body but sorrow develops the soul.)

To imagine an unfamiliar situation, imagination uses the familiar elements and therefore does not represent her.

Fun - it's like photography. What we perceive in the presence of the beloved one, is merely negative. We show it later, at home, when we gain the inner dark room, where for strangers "trespassing."

To heal suffering, you need to experience it fully.

There is no such a wise man - he said, - who in his youth did not say such or even would not have done such things, the memory of which would be distasteful to him and which he wished to erase from his life. But he will not necessarily regret it, for he could not be sure that you would have attained wisdom, in so far as it is possible, if not passed through a number of absurd or disgusting incarnations before this latest incarnation. Know that there are young men, sons and grandsons of prominent people who are their mentors in school have inspired the nobility of mind and moral comeliness. Maybe they have nothing to erase from his life, they could make and sign everything they said, but it's a pathetic minds, impotent descendants doctrinaire, and their wisdom is negative and sterile. Wisdom cannot be obtained ready, it opens itself, going a path that no one can get it for you, from which no one can save you, because wisdom is your perspective on things.

A memory is only a regret for a particular moment.

Even women, though constituting a judgment about the man only by his appearance, see this appearance, the special emanation of life. That's why they like military, firefighters; shape allows them to be less demanding in terms of appearance; kissing them, women think that under the cuirass beats special heart, more adventurous and more tender; and the young Emperor or the crown Prince to achieve the most flattering victories in foreign countries in which he travels, needs the right profile, which is probably necessary for a stockbroker.