We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselve…

Marcel Proust
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We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow. ✨ Marcel Proust (2016). In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu”, p.1981, Jester House Publishing
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We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow. ✨ Marcel Proust (2016). In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu”, p.1981, Jester House Publishing

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