Aya

“Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.”
― Marcel Proust

“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

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

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