We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. - Marcel Proust

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

En cuanto somos desdichados, nos volvemos morales.

The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them; they can inflict on them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies succeeding one another without interruption in the bosom of a family will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physician.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.