The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. – Marcel Proust
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. – Marcel Proust
Every reader finds himself. The writers work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. – Marcel Proust