When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.Fran Lebowitz
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.Marcel Proust
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.Marcel Proust
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.Marcel Proust
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.Marcel Proust
Every reader finds himself. The writer's 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
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.Marcel Proust
