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Quote by Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust

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

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Every reader finds himself. The writers work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. – Marcel Proust

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