Whatever the nature of a man’s love affairs, one is always wrong about the number of people with whom he is having liaisons, partly because one mistakenly interprets friendships as affairs, and gets the addition wrong, but also because one tends to believe that one proven affair precludes another, which is an error of quite a different kind.
 Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (1927). copy citation

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