If the women in what used to be called houses of ill-fame, if even kept women (provided we know that is what they are) attract us so little, it is not that they are less beautiful than others, it is that they are ready and waiting for us: what we are trying to attain is already on offer, they are not conquests.
 Marcel Proust, The Prisoner (1923). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source The Prisoner
Topic conquest fame
Date 1923
Language English
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Note Translated by Carol Clark
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