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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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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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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He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. – Leonardo da Vinci

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. – J.K. Rowling

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. – Edvard Munch

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