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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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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. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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The only paradise is paradise lost. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me. ↗

— Sun Ra

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Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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