Letters to His Neighbor Quotes

“My solitude has become even more profound, and I know nothing of the sun but what your letter tells me. It has thus been a blessed messenger, and contrary to the proverb, this single swallow has made for me an entire spring.”
― Marcel Proust, Letters to His Neighbor

“When we are suffering, the only words that touch us are the words of those who have known the person we loved and who can recall him to us.”
― Marcel Proust, Letters to the Lady Upstairs