Marcel Proust. Time regained (№ 146710)

People, by nature endowed with the ability to feel but devoid of the imagination, yet could write amazing novels. The suffering caused him by other people, his attempts to prevent them, the clash between his and others ' violent nature - all this is analyzed with the help of reason, could become material for a book as beautiful as if she was from the beginning to the end of an imaginary represented in the imagination, as unexpected to himself, equally as random as the fancy might fancy.