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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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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.
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A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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We become moral when we are unhappy.
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The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises pain we obey.
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And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.
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Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)
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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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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
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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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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 theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.
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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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