“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Chance
― Chance
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
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