perfect knowledge of those who disdain you, like complete absorption of any such person, is impossible unless one has overcome that disdain.
 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 disdain overcoming
Date 1919
Language English
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Note Translated by James Grieve
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