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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

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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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