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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
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And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?
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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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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.
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A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal but their ranks can be mingled or broken.
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises pain we obey.
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