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“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Emma
― Emma
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
― Emma
― Emma
“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Emma
― Emma
“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, smell and taste still remain for a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, on the ruin of all the rest, bearing without giving way, on their almost impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, was so utterly inseparable from him, that it would have been impossible to eradicate it without almost entirely destroying him; as surgeons say, his love was no longer operable.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
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