John Dudding

“Each of us is indeed alone.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
― Marcel Proust

“Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent every person is to us like Janus, presenting to us the face that we like if that person leaves us, the repellent face if we know him or her to be perpetually at our disposal.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]