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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.
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Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.
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Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.
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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.
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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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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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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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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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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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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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
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It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
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Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
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