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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. — Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

In the original French

Le désir fleurit, la possession flétrit toutes choses;

Marcel Proust
1896
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Topic
DesireFading love
Time
1896
Person
Marcel Proust
Provenance
Current citation
Proust, Marcel. "Pleasures and Days." Pleasures and Days and "Memory" / Les Plaisirs et les Jours et "Souvenir" Short Stories by Marcel Proust: A Dual-Language Book, translated by Edward H. Ousselin. Dover Publications, 2014.
Original citation
Proust, Marcel. Les Plaisirs et les Jours. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1896.

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