Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it. (Marcel Proust)

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Marcel Proust

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