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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 not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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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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The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. If only, she wrote, you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.
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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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May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
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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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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer puisqu'il existe de j a' en chacun de nous, mais a' le traduire. To write the essential book, the only true book, a great writerdoesnot needto invent becausethebook already exists inside each one of us and merely needs translation.
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises pain we obey.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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They like my books better in England than in France a translation would be very successful there.
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