If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
Middlemarch
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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
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