September 2012
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“Just as priests, who have the greatest experience of the heart, can best forgive...”
– Marcel Proust
August 2011
6 posts
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“Love is an incurable malady like those diatheses in which rheumatism lets up...”
– Marcel Proust
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“A clear view of certain inferiorities in no way diminishes affection; on the...”
– Marcel Proust
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“To everything more or less British, the French give an English name, just not...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Aesthetically, the number of human types is so limited that wherever one goes...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Each one of us has his own way of being betrayed in love just as each of us has...”
– Marcel Proust
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“We get engaged by proxy and then think ourselves obliged to marry the person who...”
– Marcel Proust
July 2011
8 posts
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“Of all the means by which love is produced, of all its agents of dissemination,...”
– Marcel Proust
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“When a piece of sculpture or a musical composition produces an emotion that one...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Doubtless to every man the life of any other individual reaches out into...”
– Marcel Proust
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“When nothing remains of our remote past, after the people are dead and the...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Certainly it is more reasonable to sacrifice one’s life to women than to...”
– Marcel Proust
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“In matters of love, one must not fear, as in ordinary life, merely the future,...”
– Marcel Proust
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“During a war the man who does not love his country says nothing bad about it,...”
– Marcel Proust
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“After a certain lapse of time the cancer patient dies. It is very rare that...”
– Marcel ProustÂ
June 2011
8 posts
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“Reason opens our eyes; an error we have dispelled gives us an additional sense.”
– Marcel Proust
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“There are moments in life when a kind of beauty is born of the multiplicity of...”
– Marcel Proust
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“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direction ratio to the speed of her...”
– Marcel Proust
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“The pleasure that all men experience in mulling over their recollections is...”
– Marcel Proust
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“In truth, to possess one must have desired. We do not possess a line, a surface,...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Everything that seems to us imperishable tends toward its destruction.”
– Marcel Proust
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“Chemists at least can use analysis; patients suffering from a malady whose cause...”
– Marcel Proust
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“It is not because others are dead that our affection for them grows less; it is...”
– Marcel Proust
May 2011
23 posts
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“After a certain age, pride and prudence teach us to pretend not to insist on the...”
– Marcel Proust
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“We hear in retrospect what we have understood.”
– Marcel Proust
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“Little by little, in one instance after another, life shows us that what is most...”
– Marcel Proust
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“We like torturing people but without getting really into trouble by killing...”
– Marcel Proust
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“The testimony of the senses is an operation of the mind in which belief creates...”
– Marcel Proust
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“It can almost be said that just as we have no knowledge, so we have no jealousy...”
– Marcel Proust
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“We assume we know what things mean and what people think for the simple reason...”
– Marcel Proust
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“To each one of us, clear ideas are those which have the same degree of confusion...”
– Marcel Proust
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“If the eyes are the organ through which the intelligence shines, the nose...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Those who suffer in love are, as it is said of certain invalids, their own...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Our desires are constantly getting in each other’s way, and, in the...”
– Marcel Proust
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“The moments of the past are not motionless; in our memory they retain the motion...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Pleasures are like photographs. In the presence of the beloved, we only get a...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Society is like sex, in that no one knows to what perversions it can lead once...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Often, in matters of love, gratitude or the will to please makes one give more...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Your fondest dream is to humiliate the man who has insulted you. But if he moves...”
– Marcel Proust
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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price mark...”
– Marcel Proust
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“One is often attracted to a person. But before there are unleashed the...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Happiness is salutary for the body, but it is sorrow that develops the...”
– Marcel Proust
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“We know that our dreams are not realizable; but it is useful to have dreams in...”
– Marcel Proust
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“The places we have known do not belong simply to the world of space in which we...”
– Marcel Proust
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“By every new suffering that often unknowingly a woman inflicts upon us, she...”
– Marcel Proust
April 2011
19 posts
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“We are sculptors forever trying to model from a woman an entirely different...”
– Marcel Proust
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