A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Source: Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 3, Within a Budding Grove, pt. 1, Madame Swann at Home, 1918.
-- Marcel Proust, (Jul 10 1871-1922), French author; He wrote Remembrance of Things Past, 1922-32, a novel in seven parts based on the