Marcel Poust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French novelist and critic. These quotes are from his translated works. Such deep thoughts makes one wonder how much more of an impact they would make in the original language, French.
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The bonds between ourselves and others exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them and notwithstanding the illusion . . . we exist alone.
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The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade
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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.
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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