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