Simona Balková

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

“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

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
― Marcel Proust

“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower