Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, t…

Marcel Proust
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world. ✨ Marcel Proust (2016). The Guermantes Way, p.461, Marcel Proust
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