David Given Schwarm

“the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

“But it so happened that one of the things one was required to know at that moment was that knowledge is nothing, and is not worth a straw when compared with originality.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

“wrestling with passages like this one from Herbert Spencer: “Can the oscillation of a molecule be represented in consciousness side by side with a nervous shock, and the two be recognized as one? No effort enables us to assimilate them. That a unit of feeling has nothing in common with a unit of motion, becomes more than ever manifest when we bring the two into juxtaposition.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah