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elastic

«It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.»
«Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country.»
«To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning»
«The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Passion, Time | Keywords: contract, elastic, expand
«The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.»