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Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
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As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had become curious about their souls. And the Universe had appeared to me more interesting.
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Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones.
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
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In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
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The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
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The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.
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The moments of the past do not remain still they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?
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A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal but their ranks can be mingled or broken.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.
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Desire makes everything blossom
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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
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We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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