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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.
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Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.
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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
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