We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
Marcel ProustWords do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel ProustWe are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Marcel Proust