A small purple padlocked box with a silver disc suspended above it on a dark green background.

Original artwork, not a still

Remembrance of Things Past

Marcel Proust

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

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The comparison says secrecy around a vice can separate people more effectively than exile in distant places. It measures isolation figuratively rather than describing an actual journey.

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