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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.

Marcel Proust
Children, Soul, Age
Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust
Dark, Tree, Soul
Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

Marcel Proust
Children, Soul, Age

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Marcel Proust
Water, Soul, Suffering

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