I found some comforting words today upon finishing In Search of Lost Time, the story of my graduate career:
"Our greatest fears, like our greatest ambitions, are not beyond our strength, and we are able in the end to overcome the one and to realize the other."
(I hope so).
This summary also seemed comforting:
"In Search of Lost Time is the story of a man who is unable to bring himself to write. Finally he discovers his theme and decides it is time to begin. And as we finish reading the novel, we realize that it is the book on which he is about to start. Here we have the perfectly formed circle of ‘Time Lost’ and ‘Time Regained’, which was Proust’s original plan."
(In the end, Proust had time & strength to write thousands of pages).
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Just for my own reference: this article.
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