What makes one so happy is the presence of something unstable in the heart, something one contrives constantly to keep in a state of stability, and which one is hardly even aware of as long as it remains like that. In fact, though, love secretes a permanent pain, which joy neutralizes in us, makes virtual and holds in abeyance
 Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Topic pain joy
Date 1919
Language English
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Note Translated by James Grieve
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