A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Expectation
Quotations by Marcel Proust
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer’s leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. Marcel Proust
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