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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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L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
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Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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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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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.
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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
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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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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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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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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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