Swann's Way

my grandmother, who felt that “it’s a pity to shut oneself indoors in the country” and who had endless arguments with my father on days when it rained too heavily, because he sent me to read in my room instead of having me stay outdoors. “That’s no way to make him strong and active,” she would say sadly, “especially that boy, who so needs to build up his endurance and willpower.”

The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.