In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3: The Guermantes Way

‰ЫПThe actors‰ЫЄ gestures said to their arms, to their robes: ‰ЫчBe majestic.‰ЫЄ But their insubmissive limbs allowed a biceps which knew nothing of the part they were playing to flaunt itself between shoulder and elbow; their bodies continued to express the trivialities of everyday life and to emphasize not the subtlety of Racine but the related functions of their muscles; and the hanging robes that they held up fell back into a vertical drop in which the laws governing falling bodies were challenged solely by the tame movement of textiles.‰Ыќ

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‰ЫПIt occurred to me that our social life, like an artist‰ЫЄs studio, is filled with abandoned sketches depicting our momentary attempts to capture our need for a great love, but what did not occur to me was that sometimes, if the sketch is not too old, we may return to it and transform it into a completely different work, possibly more important than the one we had originally planned.‰Ыќ