Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon t…

Marcel Proust
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Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.27, Wordsworth Editions
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Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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