Marcel Proust quote: For in this world of ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into ...

For in this world of ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely grief.

~ Marcel Proust ~

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