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Lies are essential to humanity.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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