Proust

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“I was able to believe for years that going to Madame Swann’s was a vague chimera that I would never attain; after having passed a quarter of an hour there, it was the time at which I did not know her which became to me a chimera and vague, as a possible destroyed by another possible.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“That translucent alabaster of our memories.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)