I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of myst…

Marcel Proust
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things. ✨ Marcel Proust (2003). Swann's Way, Viking Press
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