January 2010
24 posts
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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 31st
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“Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs....”
– “Little Miss Sunshine”- Frank (#1 preminent Proust scholar) (via thatnicejewishboy)
Jan 31st
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“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 30th
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“No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 29th
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“The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 29th
“And each time, the laziness that deters us from every difficult task, every work...”
– Marcel Proust (via lightsoutfordarkerskies)
Jan 29th
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“Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 27th
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“For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 26th
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“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail… failure is his world...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 26th
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“Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence, it is rare...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 24th
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“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 24th
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“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
– Marcel Proust (via krayonela)
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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“The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 22nd
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“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 21st
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“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 20th
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“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 20th
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“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 19th
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“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 17th
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“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 17th
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“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 15th
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“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 15th
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in...”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 15th
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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”
– Marcel Proust
Jan 15th