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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
MARCEL PROUST

Deep Sound Time
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
MARCEL PROUST

Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
MARCEL PROUST

Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Illusion Science Space
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
MARCEL PROUST

Art Ourselves See World

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