The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of …

Marcel Proust
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement. ✨ Marcel Proust (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated), p.1194, Delphi Classics
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