So these intellectual and sensitive people feel betrayed, without quite knowing why. Thus it is that the mediocre woman, whom we were astonished to see them love, enriches their universe far more than an intelligent woman would have done.
 Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1925). copy citation

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