"Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind."

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One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life.

— Harold Bloom