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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
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... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
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For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.
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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
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All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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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
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Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.
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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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