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Creature Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different…
- People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being…
- People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…
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