"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language."
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Source: Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”
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