It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – 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

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – 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
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains. – Marcel Proust
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust