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Quotation from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

“I found the whole path throbbing with the fragrance of hawthorn-blossom.”

Marcel Proust (spoken by Narrator)

Swann's Way, Combray (the Méséglise way), trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922)

Portrait of Marcel Proust

The boy enters the lane by Swann's park at Tansonville, just before he first sees Gilberte.

Citation: "I found the whole path throbbing with the fragrance of hawthorn-blossom." — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Combray (the Méséglise way), trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922). (id proust-swanns-way-q4)

Portrait: Marcel Proust 1895, Otto Wegener, Public domain.

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