Marcel Proust Quotes

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

Marcel Proust

• Desire
• Rule
• Beliefs
• Own Life

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• It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Desire
  • Rule
  • Beliefs