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“In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.”
― The Guermantes Way
― The Guermantes Way
“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
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“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Each of us is indeed alone.”
― The Guermantes Way
― The Guermantes Way
“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match.”
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