Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in fa…

Marcel Proust
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ✨ Marcel Proust (1982). Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained, Vintage
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