In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
~ Marcel Proust

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Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.
~ Marcel Proust

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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust

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