Alda Henrique

“As the danger of offending comes mainly from the difficulty in assessing which things are noticed and which are not noticed at least as a precaution we should never talk about ourselves, because this is an issue that certainly our view and others don’t ever coincide. … To the bad habit of talking about yourselves and own faults, we must add, as forming a block with it, the other habit of denouncing the others’ characters unrelated defects similar to ours. And we are constantly talking in these defects, as if it were a kind of detour to talk about ourselves; they join the pleasure of confessing and absolving ourselves. Marcel Proust, in “In The Shadow of The Young Girls in Bloom”