Besides, nature, by virtue of all the feelings that it aroused in me, seemed to me the thing most diametrically opposed to the mechanical inventions of mankind. The less it bore their imprint, the more room it offered for the expansion of my heart.—Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (1913) (trans. Moncrieff & Kilmartin 1981; revised Enright 1992)
Monday, June 11, 2012
'the less it bore their imprint'
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