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1. “His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment, five o’clock in the afternoon, then to another, then to another again. But Swann was incapable of inventing his sufferings. They were only the memory, the perpetuation of a suffering that had come to him from without.”
Marcel Proust
Jealousy, Memory, Suffering, Octopus, Emotional Pain, Lingering Thoughts
2. “Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.” William Butler Yeats Regretful Past, Lingering Thoughts, Weighed Conscience, Regret, Conscience, Memory
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1. “His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment, five o’clock in the afternoon, then to another, then to another again. But Swann was incapable of inventing his sufferings. They were only the memory, the perpetuation of a suffering that had come to him from without.”
Marcel Proust Jealousy, Memory, Suffering, Octopus, Emotional Pain, Lingering Thoughts
2. “Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”
William Butler Yeats Regretful Past, Lingering Thoughts, Weighed Conscience, Regret, Conscience, Memory
