Doubtless the love of a normal man also can, when, by the successive inventions of his desires, his regrets, his disappointments and his projects, the lover constructs an entire novel around a woman whom he does not know, enable us to measure the notable divergence between the two legs of the compass.
 Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah (1921). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Sodom and Gomorrah
Topic disappointment invention
Date 1921
Language English
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Note Translated by John Sturrock
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