Marcel Proust Quotes

He Went Farther; Agonised By The Reflection, At The Moment When It Passed By Him, So Near And Yet So Infinitely Remote, That, While It Was Addressed To Their Ears, It Knew Them Not, He Would Regret, Almost, That It Had A Meaning Of Its Own, An Intrinsic And Unalterable Beauty, Foreign To Themselves, Just As In The Jewels Given To Us, Or Even In The Letters Written To Us By A Woman With Whom We Are In Love, We Find Fault With The 'water' Of A Stone, Or With The Words Of A Sentence Because They Are Not Fashioned Exclusively From The Spirit Of A Fleeting Intimacy And Of A 'lass Unaparalleled.

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