But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and o…

Marcel Proust
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. ✨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book), p.54, Modern Library
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. ✨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book), p.54, Modern Library

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