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We become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
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There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.
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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
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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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The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
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We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
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Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.
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Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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