Marcel Proust quote about death from The Fugitive - The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead
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“ The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead ”
 Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1925). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source The Fugitive
Topic death pain others
Date 1925
Language English
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Note Translated by Peter Collier
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“L'idée qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'idée qu'un autre est mort” Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue

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Marcel Proust quote about death from The Fugitive - The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead
Marcel Proust quote about death from The Fugitive - The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead