Quote by Marcel Proust
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive

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

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

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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Mental Illness
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. – Marcel Proust

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another. – Sir John Vanbrugh

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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climates sultry. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. – William Wycherley

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O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! – William Shakespeare

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