No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or … - Marcel Proust

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I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself. . . I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person.

Marcel Proust

No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

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