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

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

不是因为别人死了，我们对他们的感情才会淡薄，而是因为我们自己正在死去。

-- Marcel Proust 马塞尔·普鲁斯特