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Quant au bonheur, il n’a presque qu’une seule utilité, rendre le malheur possible.

— Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913)

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Ch. III: "An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes"

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