For these reasons and many others, the fact that we have our greatest moments of unhappiness with women who are not ‘our type’ is not simply a product of that mocking destiny which brings our happiness into being only in the form which pleases us least.
 Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (1927). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Finding Time Again
Topic unhappiness happiness
Date 1927
Language English
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Note Translated by Ian Patterson
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