About Me
'Even if his gaoler or his nurse does not allow him to pluck those tempting fruits, still the world seems a better place and existence in it more clement. For desire seems to us more attractive, we repose on it with more confidence, when we know that outside ourself there is a reality which conforms to it, even if, for us, it is not to be realized. And we think with more joy of a life in which (on condition that we eliminate for a moment from our mind the tiny obstacle, accidental and special, which prevents us personally from doing so) we can imagine ourself to be assuaging that desire. As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls, And the universe had appeared to me more interesting.'
-from Within A Budding Grove, M.Proust
