Voyages of Discovery

Another one from The Captive, and one of my favourites. Elstir and Vinteuil are fictional characters, but actually quite really to us fans. The former a painter, the latter a composer, with a notorious daughter, just like me (the daughter bit, not the composer bit).

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is; and this we can contrive with an Elstir, with a Vinteuil; with men like these we do really fly from star to star.