Marcel Proust Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922
Birthday: July 10
Death: November 18
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!
source: Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, p.369, Penguin UK
topic: Knowing, People, Sensual, Possessing, Immense
