“The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.”

— Samuel Beckett , book Proust

Proust (1957), p. 4

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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

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