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Love is space and time measured by the heart. — Marcel Proust

A woman whom we love seldom satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman we do not love. — Marcel Proust

But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion. — Marcel Proust

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone. — Marcel Proust

In love, happiness is an abnormal state. — Marcel Proust

The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for something else. — Marcel Proust

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. — Marcel Proust

There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'. — Marcel Proust

And so it is with things that we shall later love the most. We meet them first as strangers who give us only a feeling of surprise. — Marcel Proust

Life is strewn with these miracles for which people who love can always hope. — Marcel Proust

The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer. — Marcel Proust

Love is a reciprocal torture. — Marcel Proust

Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ... — Marcel Proust

So beautiful that he could not refrain from moving his lips towards her ... — Marcel Proust

From the moment when they were in love, it was superfluous to obey them, since they would only be more in love later on. — Marcel Proust

One can seldom admire what one loves. — Marcel Proust

We do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love. — Marcel Proust

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream. — Marcel Proust

One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. — Marcel Proust

Fall in love with a dog's bum,
And thou'll think it pretty as a plum. — Marcel Proust

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart. — Marcel Proust

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one. — Marcel Proust

He sat there silent, watching their love expire. — Marcel Proust

There can be no peace of mind in love, since what one has obtained is never anything but a new starting-point for further desires — Marcel Proust

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. — Marcel Proust

"Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ... — Marcel Proust

With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait. — Marcel Proust

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving. — Marcel Proust

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. — Marcel Proust

I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me. — Marcel Proust

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. — Marcel Proust

The two chief causes of error in our relations with another person are, having ourselves a good heart, or else being in love with the other person. — Marcel Proust

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. — Marcel Proust

To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type! — Marcel Proust

We love only what we do not wholly possess. — Marcel Proust

Love, and consequently fear, of the crowd being one of the most powerful motives in all human beings ... — Marcel Proust

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love. — Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — Marcel Proust

Love ... , ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come. — Marcel Proust

An impression of love is out of proportion to the other impressions of life, but when it is lost in their midst we are incapable of appreciating it. — Marcel Proust

And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit. — Marcel Proust

Do you think it possible for a woman really to be touched by a man's being in love with her, and never to be unfaithful to him? — Marcel Proust

I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you. — Marcel Proust

And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love. — Marcel Proust

he loved sincerity, but only as he might love a pimp who could keep him in touch with the daily life of his mistress. — Marcel Proust

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture. — Marcel Proust

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself. — Marcel Proust