Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.[Nos désirs vont s’interférant et, dans la confusion de l’existence, il est rare qu’un bonheur vienne justement se poser sur le désir qui l’avait réclamé.]

Source:Part One, Vol. II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
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