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“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”
― Marcel Proust

“A lungo andare ogni speranza si consuma e si spegne; ma perché non dovrebbe accadere la stessa cosa alla disperazione? Finite le speranze, poi finiranno pure le disperazioni.”
― Marcello Veneziani, Dispera bene. Manuale di consolazione e resistenza al declino

“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.”
― Marcel Proust