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Quotation by Marcel Proust
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Bergotte in Remembrance of Things Past, vol. II, Within a Budding Grove Pléiade (1954)"Cities of the Plain" Remembrance of Things Past (1922)Dr. du Boulbon, in "The Guermantes Way" Remembrance of Things Past (1921)Elstir, in Within a Budding Grove Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 4 (1918), trans. by Scott Moncrieff (1924)"Fragments From Italian Comedy" Pleasures and Regrets (1896, trans. 1948)
But, when nothing subsists from a distant past, after the death of others, after the destruction of objects, only the senses of smell and taste, weaker but more enduring, more intangible, more persistent, more faithful, continue for a long time, like souls, to remember, to wait, to hope, on the ruins of all the rest, to bring without flinching, on their nearly impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist. Nouvelle Revue Française (1913). Remembrance of Things Past, vol. I, Swann's Way, p. 47, Pléiade (1954).
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