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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
“I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.”
― The Captive / The Fugitive
― The Captive / The Fugitive
“in all countries fools outnumber the rest;”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
“Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent every person is to us like Janus, presenting to us the face that we like if that person leaves us, the repellent face if we know him or her to be perpetually at our disposal.”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
“...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.”
― The Captive / The Fugitive
― The Captive / The Fugitive
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