David Given Schwarm

“It is just by following Christian morality that one gets into the worst collisions of duty. Only those who habitually make five an even number can escape them.”
― C.G. Jung, Answer to Job: (From Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)

“But the slightest pretext serves to revive a chronic disease, just as the slightest opportunity may enable the vice of the person who is the cause of our jealousy to be practised anew (after a lull of chastity) with different people.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive

“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