Quick Quotes: Proust and Emotions

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They must always have an opinion about everything. And as they have no opinions of their own, they spend the first half of their lives asking us ours and the second half serving them up to us again.  

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She felt a sort of pang and as it were an itching in all her limbs at the thought of this happiness being snatched behind her back, unbeknown to her, and it made her irritated and jealous. 

From The Guermantes Way Volume III (In Search of Lost Time) 

 

 

Clarice Lispector Peering Into My Soul: Quick Quote

Because, you see, I knew I was entering the crude and raw glory of nature. Seduced, I was still fighting as best I could against the quicksand that was swallowing me: and each movement I was making toward "no, no!", each movement pushed me inevitably on; not having the strength to fight was my only forgiveness.