Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. — Marcel Proust · Skopia

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

In the original French

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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