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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Lies are essential to humanity.
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They like my books better in England than in France a translation would be very successful there.
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No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
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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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