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Madame Leroi, a character in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, strikes me as an exceptional woman when she nips a conversation in the bud and says: ‘L’amour? Je le fais souvent mais je n’en parle jamais.’ Most people like to talk about it, read about it, listen to songs about it, see movies about it. We talk a lot about other things too, like the weather or our health. But there is something that sets love-talk apart.
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Schaubroeck, K. (2014). Loving the Lovable. In: Maurer, C., Milligan, T., Pacovská, K. (eds) Love and Its Objects. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383310_8
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