Marcel Proust
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I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire. ✨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book), p.124, Modern Library

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