Marcel Proust Quotes

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.

Marcel Proust

• Danger
• Relationships
• Tragedy
• Prisoners
• Demanding

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• 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.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Danger
  • Relationships
  • Tragedy