Greg Raczkowski

“one might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time