Status Updates From Marcel Proust: A Life

«Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realise how much it owes to them, and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. (...)»

«(..) People disappoint me so much that I am more curious about flowers, and many other things that one can't see from one's bedroom. But when people don't disappoint, nothing is more marvellous.»