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The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
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For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
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The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
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After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.
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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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