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«A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.»
«Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Words
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centuries, drastically, meanings
«If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.»
«In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Dreams,
Men,
Youth
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fall in, fall in love, possesses, possessing, younger
«Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.»
«Love is a reciprocal torture.»
«In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Joy,
Love
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atrocious, delays, earlier, in reality, neutralize, neutralized, neutralizes, neutralizing, obtained, renders, virtual, virtual reality
«The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.»
«It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying»
«Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Habit
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cruelties, enchantments, prevents, second nature
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