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There is a quotation from Dickens which I am trying to remember, most probably from Great Expectations or Little Dorrit which is all about how there are people coming towards us and we are moving towards them and we will have effects on them, and they have purposes connected with us, of which we know nothing until after things have happened.

Can anyone place the reference? I would like to include it in my Nip/Tuck essay because I am making some analogies between the hyper-realism of Ryan Murphy and Dickens.

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Seems to me there's passage somewhere in Proust, quite possibly in the "Overture" to Swann's Way, about some people being like a train approaching, tiny and on the horizon at first, then getting bigger, till they're roaring down upon you. But it may be my imagination.

I think you are right, and I am almost certain that, when I read it, I instantly thought of the Dickens quotation I am looking for, and realized that Proust was echoing it.