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Marcel Proust1871–1922

Marcel Proust on happiness

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: “An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes”

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