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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
— Marcel Proust
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An editorial interpretation.
Memory is imagined as a place stocked with substances that can soothe or harm. Chance, rather than deliberate choice, guides the hand towards them. The comparison gives recollection an unpredictable emotional effect: revisiting the past may offer comfort or bring something painful to the surface.
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