Marcel Proust Quote

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.


pt.4. Cities of the plain. pt.5. The captive. pt.6. The sweet cheat gone. pt.7. The past recaptured (ed. 1934)


For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.