Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the…

Marcel Proust
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Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
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People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. ✨ Marcel Proust (2006). Remembrance of Things Past, p.339, Wordsworth Editions
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. ✨ Marcel Proust (2016). In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu”, p.965, Jester House Publishing

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