Quoting Marcel Proust.........

I read a most beautiful and moving paragraph recently, a quote from Marcel Proust from the (mis)translation of Y.K. Karaosmanoğlu. To quoute:

"To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person - what else is this but the birth of great passion?"

how apt then, that I should find these to be the introductory words to Orhan Pamuks White Castle....how very apt.....