No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of th…

Marcel Proust
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No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves. ✨ Marcel Proust (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated), p.808, Delphi Classics
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