Today’s One-Liner (#39)

« Dire que j’ai gâché des années de ma vie, que j’ai voulu mourir, que j’ai eu mon plus grand amour, pour une femme qui ne me plaisait pas, qui n’était pas mon genre ! »

“To think that I’ve wasted years of my life, that I’ve longed to die, that I’ve experienced my greatest love for a woman who didn’t appeal to me, who wasn’t even my type!” 

–Charles Swann on Odette, in Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright

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