talesofpassingtime:

“To prove to you that I am your sincere well-wisher, I am going to send you my last novel. But you will not care for it; it is not deliquescent enough, not fin de siècle enough for you; it is too frank, too honest; what you want is Bergotte, you have confessed it, high game for the jaded palates of pleasure-seeking epicures.”

—

Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way 

(via talesofpassingtime)

-What you want is Bergotte… -

cold-glass:

“Every lover is mad”

— Ronald barthes

goodreadss:

“You gave everything to everyone. Except to me.”

— J.K. Rowling
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