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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
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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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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.
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Love is a reciprocal torture.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
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May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
Marcel Proust
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
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The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place it is learning to see with new eyes.
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We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.
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Even the simple act that we call going to visit a person of our acquaintance is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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