Doll Chimera

Famous quotes containing the words doll and/or chimera:

    A doll in the doll-maker’s house
    Looks at the cradle and bawls:
    “That is an insult to us.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I was able to believe for years that going to Madame Swann’s was a vague chimera that I would never attain; after having passed a quarter of an hour there, it was the time at which I did not know her which became to me a chimera and vague, as a possible destroyed by another possible.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)