"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?"
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Source: Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, Vintage
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