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People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.
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 is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
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... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.
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Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.
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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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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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For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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I should have been happy: I wasn’t.
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We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.
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Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
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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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