“ Love, in painful anxiety as in happy desire, is the need for complete possession. It is born, it lives only for so long as there is something left to conquer. We love only that which we do not wholly possess. ”
Marcel Proust, The Prisoner (1923). copy citation
Author | Marcel Proust |
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Source | The Prisoner |
Topic | love desire |
Date | 1923 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Carol Clark |
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