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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
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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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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
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Friendship is in the end no more than: . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone.
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
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A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
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May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
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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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