Jerry

“The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.”
― Marcel Proust

“For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.”
― Marcel Proust

“The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.”
― Bruce Trigger

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.”
― Marcel Proust