Love... Is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

l'amour, même en ses plus humbles commencements, est un exemple frappant du peu qu'est la réalité pour nous.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Delusion Love

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. À la recherche du temps perdu [Remembrance of Things Past]. Vol 6: Albertine disparue/La Fugitive [The Fugitive/Sweet Cheat Gone]. Grasset and Gallimard, 1925.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6. Translated by Peter Collier. Penguin, 2021.

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Another quote about Love

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius

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Topic
Nature of love Love

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Sextus Propertius
Source
Elegies
Medium
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Language
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Time
24 BC 20s BC 1st century BC
Era
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Original Citation

Sextus Propertius. Elegies. 24 B. C., bk. II, xxxiii, l. 43.

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Another quote originally in French

Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage.

Joachim Du Bellay

Les Regrets

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Topic
Effects of travel Travel

Author

Joachim Du Bellay
Source
Les Regrets
Medium
Poem
Language
French
Time
1558 1550s 16th century
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Citation

Du Bellay, Joachim. "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage." Les Regrets. 1558.