Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. ✨ Marcel…

Marcel Proust
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. ✨ Marcel Proust (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated), p.4369, Delphi Classics
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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me. ✨ Marcel Proust (2016). In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu”, p.2157 … ▶
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence. ✨ Marcel Proust (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book), p.20, Mod … ▶
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means … ▶
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. ✨ Marcel Proust (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated), p.4369, Delphi Classics

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