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

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Author Marcel Proust
Source The Prisoner
Topic love desire
Date 1923
Language English
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Note Translated by Carol Clark
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