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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.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
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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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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.
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For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.
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with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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They like my books better in England than in France a translation would be very successful there.
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Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.
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