It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. - Marcel Proust

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. - Andrew Carnegie quotes