Marcel Proust

France
10 Jul 1871 // 18 Nov 1922
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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.

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