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Book cover for In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics) (v. 2)
like certain skies painted with an almost Parisian modernity by Mantegna or Veronese, beneath which could be accomplished only some solemn and tremendous act, such as a departure by train or the Elevation of the Cross.
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Ivan Turgenev
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev
“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Marcel Proust
“We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.”
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

Marcel Proust
“Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue.”
Marcel Proust , Swann’s Way

Ivan Turgenev
“As we all know, time sometimes flies like a bird, and sometimes
crawls like a worm, but people may be unusually happy when they do not
even notice whether time has passed quickly or slowly”
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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