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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

~Marcel Proust

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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

~Marcel Proust

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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

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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.

~Marcel Proust

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The only paradise is paradise lost.

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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: July 10th, 1871

Died: November 18th, 1922

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