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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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They like my books better in England than in France a translation would be very successful there.
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Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
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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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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.
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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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