Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders … - Marcel Proust

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I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine.

Marcel Proust

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.

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