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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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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
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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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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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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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Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.
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Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
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