It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them gr…

Marcel Proust
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.937, Wordsworth Editions
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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