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The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
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 was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
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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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There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
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Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.
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Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.
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Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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