"For what we suppose to be our love……" — Marcel Proust
"For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity."
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Marcel Proust
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303 Quotes by Marcel Proust
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