"People who are not in love fail to……" — Marcel Proust

"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 surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus."

— Marcel Proust

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