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Marcel Proust Quotes: Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
         

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.


Marcel Proust
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