Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.


Remembrance of Things Past (ed. 1934)

Marcel Proust Quotes

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a...

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a...

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a...

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a...