John P.

“Certainly Brichot’s articles were far from being as remarkable as society people believed them to be. The vulgarity of the man was manifest”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]

“But one reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one’s eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one’s mistress. We are beaten and happy because we believe ourselves unbeaten and victorious.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]

“As it had been with Dreyfusism, so it was with the marriage of Saint-Loup and Odette’s daughter, a marriage people protested against at first. Now that people met everyone they knew at the Saint-Loups’, Gilberte might have had the morals of Odette herself, people would have gone there just the same and would have agreed with Gilberte in condemning undigested moral novelties like a dowager-duchess.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]

“whatever reason they give, simply don’t want to be killed, it’s nothing but funk.” And with a more emphatic gesture than when he alluded to others, “And if I don’t rejoin my regiment, it’s for the same reason.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]