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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.
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It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
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The moments of the past do not remain still they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
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Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
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The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
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For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
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A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.
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We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
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There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.
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There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
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