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Quote DB :: Authors :: Marcel Proust :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Marcel Proust Listed in: Love Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.35  Rate Quote 20 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Marcel Proust "The only paradise is paradise lost." "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." "It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused." "The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace." "I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter." Top 5 quotes from Love "Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding." "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." "Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

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