Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern. - Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time Quotes)

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.[Pareille aux kaléidoscopes qui tournent de temps en temps, la société place successivement de façon différente des éléments qu’on avait cru immuables et compose une autre figure.]

Source:Part One, Vol. II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
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