How often every year is some great nobleman robbed by the steward whom he has raised on his estate, whom he would have sworn was an honest man and who perhaps was one! And yet how much more impenetrable does this curtain which veils others’ motives become if we feel love for that person!
 Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1925). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source The Fugitive
Topic love motive
Date 1925
Language English
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Note Translated by Peter Collier
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