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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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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
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The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
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...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises pain we obey.
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Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
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Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.
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That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.
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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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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
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The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.
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