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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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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
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