74 Quotes by Marcel Proust about Love


  • Author Marcel Proust
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    If fruitful love, meant to perpetuate the race, noble as a familial, social, human duty, is superior to purely sensual love, then there is no hierarchy of sterile loves, and such a love is no less moral - or, rather, it is no more immoral for a woman to find pleasure with another woman than with a person of the opposite sex.

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  • Author Marcel Proust
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    Γαλήνη δεν υπάρχει στον έρωτα, αφού ό,τι εξασφαλίζουμε είναι πάντα ένα καινούργιο σημείο εκκίνησης για να επιθυμήσουμε περισσότερα.

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  • Author Marcel Proust
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    It was fortunate that I had not already yielded to the temptation to break with Albertine; the tedium of having to rejoin her presently, when I went home, was a trifling matter compared with the anxiety that I should have felt if the separation had occurred when I still had a doubt about her and before I had had time to grow indifferent to her.

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  • Author Marcel Proust
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    The interval of space separating her from him was one which he must as inevitably traverse as he must descend, by an irresistible gravitation, the steep slope of life itself.

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