Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.Marcel Proust
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.Marcel Proust
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.Marcel Proust
