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

Novel · Modernist literature

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

In the original French

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 · 1922
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Topic
DelusionLove
Genre
Modernist literature
Medium
Novel
Time
1922
Person
Marcel Proust
Provenance
Current citation
Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.
Original citation
Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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