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‘How often, while at Delhi, I thought of [Marcel] Proust and wished that he might have known the place and its inhabitants,’ wrote Aldous Huxley after a brief stop-off in New Delhi in 1926. ‘For the imperial city is no less rich in social
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“She cackles and her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.”
― You
― You
“His work kept on living, like the watches on the wrists of dead soldiers. [Said of Marcel Proust]”
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“Now is the time of fresh starts
This is the season that makes everything new.
There is a longstanding rumor that Spring is the time
of renewal, but that's only if you ignore the depressing
clutter and din of the season. All that flowering
and budding and birthing--- the messy youthfulness
of Spring actually verges on squalor. Spring is too busy,
too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh.
For that you need December. You need to have lived
through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower, and show off) before you can see that a landscape of new fallen snow is THE REAL YOU.
December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best FRESH START of your life.”
― When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put
This is the season that makes everything new.
There is a longstanding rumor that Spring is the time
of renewal, but that's only if you ignore the depressing
clutter and din of the season. All that flowering
and budding and birthing--- the messy youthfulness
of Spring actually verges on squalor. Spring is too busy,
too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh.
For that you need December. You need to have lived
through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower, and show off) before you can see that a landscape of new fallen snow is THE REAL YOU.
December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best FRESH START of your life.”
― When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put
“Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux. ”
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Historical Info for Historical Fiction Readers
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