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Marcel Proust — Portrait after a picture by Otto Wegener (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Marcel Proust

French novelist, critic and essayist

1871–1922

43 quotes, most often on Love, Women and Happiness.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- Love
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.
Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann’s Way (1913), “Swann in Love”
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 comma bacillus.
- Love
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
- Love
- Women

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