If the idea of death during this period had, as we have seen, cast a gloom over love, the memory of love had for a long time now helped me not to be … - Marcel Proust

" "

If the idea of death during this period had, as we have seen, cast a gloom over love, the memory of love had for a long time now helped me not to be afraid of death. For I understood that dying was not something new but quite the reverse, that since my childhood I had already died a number of times.