Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

Marcel Proust
About This Quote

In this quote from the play, Love's Labour's Lost, the character of Kate is very upset that she cannot forget that she had a heart. She is upset that she cannot stop loving her friend that she had a heart with. Her heart is very important to her and if she could not love it then she would be nothing. It was all she ever wanted and all she wanted to do. Her heart is so important to her and as Shakespeare put it, “I should never have let you have that back."

Source: Swann's Way

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