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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.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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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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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
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For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.
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For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
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