A person lost sight of is a person destroyed; a person who reappears is a new creation, different from the one before and possibly from all previous incarnations.
 Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Topic creation sight
Date 1919
Language English
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Note Translated by James Grieve
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