Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
Marcel ProustA man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel ProustKnowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
Marcel ProustEverything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel ProustWhen we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves.
Marcel Proust