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“In the midst of the most complete blindness, perspicacity subsists in the form of predilection and tenderness; so that it is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.”
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, The Fugitive, Ch. Two Mademoiselle de Forcheville.

Chet Baker & Ruth Young — Autumn Leaves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COnzZLrbvu8

“It is true that we have accomplished these changes imperceptibly; but between the memory which brusquely returns to us and our present state, and no less between two memories of different years, places, hours, the distance is such that it alone, even without any specific originality, would make it impossible to compare one with the other. Yes: if, owing to the work of oblivion, the returning memory can throw no bridge, form no connecting link between itself and the present minute, if it remains in the context of its own place and date, if it keeps its distance, its isolation in the hollow of a valley or upon the highest peak of a mountain summit, for this very reason it causes us suddenly to breathe a new air, an air which is new precisely because we have breathed it in the past, that purer air which the poets have vainly tried to situate in paradise and which could induce so profound a sensation of renewal only if it had been breathed before, since the true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. 
And I observed in passing that for the work of art which I now, though I had not yet reached a conscious resolution, felt myself ready to undertake, this distinctness of different events would entail very considerable difficulties.”
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Time Regained.

« Oui, si le souvenir, grâce à l’oubli, n’a pu contracter aucun lien, jeter aucun chaînon entre lui et la minute présente, s’il est resté à sa place, à sa date, s’il a gardé ses distances, son isolement dans le creux d’une vallée ou à la pointe d’un sommet ; il nous fait tout à coup respirer un air nouveau, précisément parce que c’est un air qu’on a respiré autrefois, cet air plus pur que les poètes ont vainement essayé de faire régner dans le Paradis et qui ne pourrait donner cette sensation profonde de renouvellement que s’il avait été respiré déjà, car les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu’on a perdus. 
Et, au passage, je remarquais qu’il y aurait dans l’œuvre d’art que je me sentais prêt déjà, sans m’y être consciemment résolu, à entreprendre, de grandes difficultés. »
Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu, Le Temps retrouvé.

Hunger marks Varric & Love attaches to Aveline.
Justice haunts Sebastian & Mercy visits Bethany.
Rage & Vengeance relinquish Anders, to wander.

Moreza — Mystic Dancer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OqEEFaot_s

“A bow quickly breaks if kept always tout, but loosen it up & your will is well served.”
[Cito rumpes arcum, semper si tensum habueris, at si laxaris, quum voles, erit utilis.]
Phaedrus, Fabulae, Book III, 14.10; Syrus, Maxims, 388.

Sundermount demon fused Desire, Sloth & Pride.
Rissa manifests detachment, disinterest & irony.
Freedom needs: map, fire, knife, key & mystery.

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