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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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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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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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