Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, n…

Marcel Proust
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. ✨ Marcel Proust (2015). Within A Budding Grove, p.513, Booklassic
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. ✨ Marcel Proust (2015). Within A Budding Grove, p.513, Booklassic

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