The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not kn…

Marcel Proust
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The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.236, Wordsworth Editions
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. ✨ Marcel Proust (2015). In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, p.526, Yale University Press
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ✨ Marcel Proust (1957). Pleasures and days: and other writings
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ✨ Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1
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The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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