John Dudding

“...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.”
― Marcel Proust

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
― Marcel Proust