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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.
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 a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
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