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The only possible paradises are those we have lost
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 do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
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If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
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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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Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.
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There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
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Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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We become moral when we are unhappy.
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We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
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I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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.
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People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.
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