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Quotation from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style!”
Swann's Way, Swann in Love, closing paragraph, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922)
Swann, cured of his love, cries out in his heart on the morning after his dream.
Citation: "To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style!" — Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Swann in Love, closing paragraph, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1922). (id proust-swanns-way-q6)
Portrait: Marcel Proust 1895, Otto Wegener, Public domain.
