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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.
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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.
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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
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I should have been happy: I wasn’t.
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Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
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