🖋️ “For the dramas and events of history, however dazzling they may seem from a distance, are made up of the same elements as…
Translated from French.
🖋️ “For the dramas and events of history, however dazzling they may seem from a distance, are made up of the same elements as our obscure lives, of the very substance of the universe. And history is like astronomical analysis, that science which reveals the composition of the most distant stars because they contain the same elements and the same gases, just like the path we tread every day, just like the body in which we live and the bones that will one day rest beside those of our mother.”
— Marcel Proust, “Jean Santeuil”, @quarto_livres, pp. 533–534
"Earthly body…" ❤