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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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