As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen.... : Quote by Marcel Proust

“ As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter? ”

Marcel Proust
  • From : In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
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