Proust

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    If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    ... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it is only when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)