"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."
"Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions."
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
"A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. :
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "
"People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus."
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. "
-Marcel Proust