Marcel Proust. Under the shadow of young girls in flower (№ 200046)

When we are in love with a woman, we only project onto it our state of mind; what, therefore, is important not of the dignity of women, and the depth of this state, and that feelings, which for us is an ordinary girl, help to float to the surface of our consciousness we are more expensive, more original, more far more important matter of our "I" than those in, which is a pleasure to converse with a man of outstanding or even happiness to admire his creations.