For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in whichβby means of a sort of snapshotβwe take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it. β¨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book), p.402, Modern Library
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