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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
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People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.
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A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
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The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
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And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
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I should have been happy: I wasn’t.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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