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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
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Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer puisqu'il existe de j a' en chacun de nous, mais a' le traduire. To write the essential book, the only true book, a great writerdoesnot needto invent becausethebook already exists inside each one of us and merely needs translation.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
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... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
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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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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
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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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