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The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Friendship is in the end no more than: . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone.
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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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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
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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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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
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The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
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In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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