Aya

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“I carry the bars within me.”
― Franz Kafka