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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
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To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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She was a woman of uncertain age.
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
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If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
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