The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust
Also known as: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic.

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Un uomo che dorme tiene in cerchio intorno a sé il filo delle ore, l'ordine degli anni e dei mondi. Svegliandosi li consulta d'istinto e vi legge in un attimo il punto che occupa sulla terra, il tempo che è trascorso fino al suo risveglio.

I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for twenty francs in the house of ill fame, where it was then for me simply a woman desirous of earning twenty francs, might be worth more than a million, more than one's family, more than all the most coveted positions in life if one had begun by imagining her to embody a strange creature, interesting to know, difficult to seize and to hold.

در زمان كودكي سرنوشت هيچ كدام از شخصيت هاي كتاب مقدس بنظرم دردناك تر از روزگار نوح نبود،به سبب توفان كه او را در كشتي اش به مدت چهل روز زنداني كرده بود. بعدها اغلب روزهاي متوالي بيمار بودم و بايد در كشتي ام مي ماندم. ان گاه بود كه فهميدم نوح هرگز نمي توانست دنيا را به ان خوبي ببيند كه از درون كشتي ديده بود، هرچند كه فضائي دربسته و زمين را تاريكي پوشانده بود.