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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
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Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.
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L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
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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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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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A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
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La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.
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