... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.
Marcel ProustIt is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
Marcel ProustI had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
Marcel ProustBut sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.
Marcel Proust