"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy."
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Source: Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics
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