One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy. ✨ Marcel Proust (2015). I…

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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy. ✨ Marcel Proust (2015). In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, p.225, Yale University Press
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