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Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical love, so unjustifiably decried, makes everyone show, down to the least detail, all he has of goodness and self-sacrifice, so that he shines even in the eyes of those nearest to him.
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Lies are essential to humanity.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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Love is a reciprocal torture.
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Under each station of the real, another glimmers.
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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
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The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place it is learning to see with new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom
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Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
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