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Quote by Marcel Proust
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort

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

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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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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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