A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.


Remembrance of things Past Cities of the Plain The Captive The Sweet Cheat Gone (ed. 1932)

Marcel Proust Quotes

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a...

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a...

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a...

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a...