When the soul of a man inclines to the wistful, he mustn’t be kept away from it, he mustn’t have it rationed. If you keep your mind off it, your mind will never know what’s in it.
 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 mind soul
Date 1919
Language English
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Note Translated by James Grieve
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