“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.”

— Marcel Proust, book In Search of Lost Time

Original: (fr) Ce n’est pas le mal qui lui donnait l’idée du plaisir, qui lui semblait agréable ; c’est le plaisir qui lui semblait malin.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)

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French novelist, critic, and essayist 1871–1922

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