"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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Source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”
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