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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.
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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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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
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A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
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Friendship is in the end no more than: . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone.
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La me decine a fait quelques petits progre' s dans ses connaissances depuis Molie' re, mais aucun dans son vocabulaire. Medicine has made a few, small advances in knowledge since Molie' r e, but none in its vocabulary.
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