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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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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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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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They like my books better in England than in France a translation would be very successful there.
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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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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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