John Dudding

“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

“Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent every person is to us like Janus, presenting to us the face that we like if that person leaves us, the repellent face if we know him or her to be perpetually at our disposal.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

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