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Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
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Lies are essential to humanity.
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The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.
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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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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.
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