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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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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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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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...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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A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
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...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.
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