We believe that we may change things around us to suit our desires, we believe this because otherwise we can see no aceptable solution. We do not think of the solution which occurs most frequently and which is also acceptable: when we do not manage to change things to suit our desires, but our desires gradually change. We become indifferent to a situation which we had hoped to change when we found it unbearable. We were not able to overcome the obstacle, althought this was our only desire, yet life led us round or beyond it, and afterwards if we turn back towards the past we can hardly catch sight of it in the distance, so imperceptible has it become.
quoted in:
Proust, Marcel
"The Fugitive" (In Search Of Lost Time, Volume 5)
p. 419, Penguin Classics, 2003
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