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Sep 7th
From “Preface to Sesame and Lilies”, by Marcel Proust, 1903:
I leave it to people of taste to decorate their homes with the reproductions of masterpieces they admire and to relieve their memories from the care of preserving for them a precious image by entrusting it to a sculptured wooden frame.
I leave it to people of taste to make their rooms the very image of their taste and to fill them only with things of which they approve.
As for me, I feel myself living and thinking only in a room where everything is creation and the language of lives profoundly different from mine, of a taste opposite to mine, where I find nothing of my conscious thought, where my imagination is excited to feel itself plunged into the womb of the non-ego.
