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In Search of Lost Time Quotes

We do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. - Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time Quotes)

We do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change.[Nous n’arrivons pas à changer les choses selon notre désir, mais peu à peu notre désir change.]

Source:Chapter One, Vol. VI: The Fugitive (1925)
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Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time Quotes
  • Book: In Search of Lost Time
  • Writer: Marcel Proust
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Published: 1927
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