We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed, " the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

It is a mistake, " Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?

Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy.

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.