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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
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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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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you I just found my cane.
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
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And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.
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Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning.
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