We know we can please others by being good, but – suggests Proust – what we really want is also to be endorsed for our more peculiar and unrespectable impulses.

我们知道我们可以通过做好事来取悦他人，但是——普鲁斯特建议——我们真正想要的也是因为我们更奇特、更不受尊重的冲动而得到认可。