Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
Marcel ProustYour soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel ProustI understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.
Marcel Proust