Relations with a woman one loves (and this also goes for the love of a young man) may remain platonic for reasons other than the woman’s virtue or the unsensual nature of the love that she inspires.
 Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (1927). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Finding Time Again
Topic virtue love
Date 1927
Language English
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Note Translated by Ian Patterson
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