Daily Dose

From Letters of Marcel Proust, translated by Mina Curtiss

JOYS

"Mon cher Gide,

I have often found that certain great joys our first having been deprived of a lesser joy, which we had a right to expect and without the expectation of which we could never have known the other joy, the most splendid of all."

From a letter to Andre Gide, dated 12 or 13 January, 1914