We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually ourdesire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerablebecomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as wewere absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, andthen if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, soimperceptible has it become. Marcel Proust