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Room Quotes by Marcel Proust
- I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself…
- This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say…
- Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have…
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