An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds …

Marcel Proust
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates. ✨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book), p.289, Modern Library
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates. ✨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book), p.289, Modern Library

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