The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in…

Marcel Proust
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The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years. ✨ Marcel Proust (2003). In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's, ePenguin
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