Vishal Vishu

“with the slight emotion which a man feels when, even without being fully aware of what he is doing, he says something, not because it is true but because he enjoys saying it, and listens to his own voice uttering the words as though they came from some one else,”
― Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]: (Book Center)

“some novel by Saintine, some landscape by Gleyre, in which she is cut out sharply against the sky, in the form of a silver sickle, some work as unsophisticated and as incomplete as were, at that date, my own impressions, and which it enraged my grandmother’s sisters to see me admire.”
― Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]: (Book Center)

“Chartres Cathedral’ after Corot, of the ‘Fountains of Saint-Cloud’ after Hubert Robert, and of ‘Vesuvius’ after Turner,”
― Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]: (Book Center)

“but from which she herself would still have plenty of time to escape without undue haste, provided that she rose at once from her bed, must often have haunted her dreams, as a prospect which combined with the two minor advantages of letting her taste the full savour of her affection for us in long years of mourning, and of causing universal stupefaction in the village when she should sally forth to conduct our obsequies, crushed but courageous, moribund but erect,”
― Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]: (Book Center)