Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it …

Marcel Proust
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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 (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book), p.79, Modern Library
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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 (2000). In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book), p.79, Modern Library

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