My Year With Proust - Day 328

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain, p. 674

Yes, I'm featuring the seemingly impossible: a sentence from Proust that isn't three pages long.  However, I'm championing it, not because of its brevity, but because of its brilliance.  I may now have to start out every class with this line, right before I write Observe/Analyze/Argue on the board for the first of thirty times.  This line may also perfectly sum up the idiocy of the recent election.