A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her…

Marcel Proust
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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. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.1024, Wordsworth Editions
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