Bahar

“To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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

“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot