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“Yes, you're changing. But the best parts of you are still here.”
― Indelicacy
― Indelicacy
“Because the different chance events which bring us into contact with certain people do not coincide with the time during which we are in love with them, but, extending beyond it, may occur before it begins and repeat themselves after it has ended, the earliest appearances in our lives of a person destined later to captivate us assume retrospectively in our eyes the significance of a warning, a presage. This”
― Swann's Way
― Swann's Way
“He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako’s life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman’s existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
“Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?”
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“Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
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