“In love, happiness is an abnormal state.”

— Marcel Proust, book In Search of Lost Time

[Le bonheur] est, dans l'amour, un état anormal.
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919)

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