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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
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It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
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We become moral when we are unhappy.
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...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.
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Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
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We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.
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A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain
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