What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, wha…

Marcel Proust
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What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown. ✨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book), p.276, Modern Library
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