Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.
Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.
