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“When, on a summer evening, the melodious sky growls like a tawny lion, and everyone is complaining of the storm, it is the memory of the Méséglise way that makes me stand alone in ecstasy, inhaling, through the noise of the falling rain, the lingering scent of invisible lilacs.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Snow
― Snow

“...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.”
― All Souls' Day
― All Souls' Day

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
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