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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
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What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Lies are essential to humanity.
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I should have been happy: I wasn’t.
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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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For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.
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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
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There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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