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The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place it is learning to see with new 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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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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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises pain we obey.
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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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A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
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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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We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
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According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
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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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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.
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I should have been happy: I wasn’t.
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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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And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?
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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
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