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Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust
Age: 51 †
Born: 1871
Born: July 10
Died: 1922
Died: November 18
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Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
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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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Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.
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For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]
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Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
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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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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
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