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