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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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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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And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.
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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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It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
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Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.
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